Gudrun
Just 64 women in Poland carry it, and none has been given in over two decades. Germanic at root, from words for a god's hidden lore.
Gudrun Pronunciation
Gudrun is pronounced GOOD-roon (/ˈgudrun/).
What Gudrun means
Where Gudrun comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Gudrun comes from the old Germanic north, built from two roots: guð, meaning god, and rún, the secret lore held in a rune. Put together they give the sense recorded here, god's secret lore. The name traveled as Old Norse Guðrún before German and Scandinavian speakers made it their own.
It carries an old story. In the Poetic Edda and the Völsunga saga, Gudrun is the wife of the hero Sigurd, and her grief and revenge drive much of the plot. A German epic of around 1230, the Kudrun, gives the name to its patient heroine. That is literature a Norwegian or German reader may still meet in school.
The runes were writing and divination at once. So god's secret lore fits the two parts, guð and rún, closely. In Poland the name stays rare. A Polish teacher reading Gudrun off a class register would likely pause. The form has no standard Polish diminutive, and it keeps its Norse shape, Guðrún, underneath.
How many people are named Gudrun
1 in 352247 women in Poland is named Gudrun. 64 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4565 among female names.
Gudrun as a middle name
Gudrun is a first name for 64 women in Poland and a middle name for another 28, a 70/30 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1344th, between Françoise (28) and Hanh (28).
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#1342 Fanny28
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#1343 Françoise28
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#1344 Gudrun28
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#1345 Hanh28
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#1346 Ivonne28