Gunn as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Gunn

What is the meaning of the name Gunn ?

The baby name Gunn is a boy name , 1 syllables long and is pronounced GUN.

Gunn is Scottish in Origin.

Gunn is chiefly an English and Scots given-name use of a northern Scottish surname. The surname is usually traced to Old Norse Gunni, a short form of compound names beginning with Gunn-, from gunnr, battle or war. In medieval Norse naming, this element could stand alone as Gunni or combine in names such as Gunnarr; the Clan Gunn tradition preserves the personal-name origin rather than a Gaelic occupational source.

Recorded in Orkney, Caithness, and Sutherland, Gunn became closely associated with Norse-Gaelic Scotland and the far north of the mainland. As a forename in English, it remains rare, far less common than related modern forms Gunnar and Gunner in the United States. Spelling forms include Gun and the Gaelicized Guinne, while Gunni is the Norse personal-name base; Gunnar adds a second element, -arr, warrior.