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gunn Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish: name of a clan associated with Caithness, derived from the Old Norse personal name Gunnr (or the feminine form Gunne), a short form of any of various compound names with the first element gunn ‘battle’.
  2. Scottish: sometimes an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille Dhuinn ‘son of the servant of the brown one’ (see Dunn). (According to Woulfe a name of the same form also existed in Sligo, Ireland.)
  3. English: metonymic occupational name for someone who operated a siege engine or cannon, perhaps also a nickname for a forceful person, from Middle English gunne, gonne ‘ballista’, ‘cannon’, ‘gun’. The term originated as a humorous application of the Scandinavian female personal name Gunne or Gunnhildr.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of gunn Families in the US in 1920
Number of gunn families
 127-252
 43-126		 1-42
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Gunns - early 1600s in Devon, England James Gunn 1
John Gunn (1787-1836) Joe Pinz 2
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William Gunn born November 1860 in Ohio 42cats 2
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