Gunn

22,857 people in the United States were counted with the surname Gunn in the 2020 census, making it the 1,524th most common in the country. That is about one person in 13,100.

By the numbers

People: 22,857
Rank: 1,524th
How common: 1 in 13,100
Per 100,000: 7.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Old Norse

From Old Norse Gunnr.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Gunn described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 65.1%
Black, not Hispanic 25.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Gunn

James Gunn (born 1966)American screenwriter and filmmaker
Anna Gunn (born 1968)American actress
Sean Gunn (born 1974)American actor
Angus Gunn (born 1996)Scottish association football player
James Gunn (1923–2020)American science fiction author
Bryan Gunn (born 1963)Scottish association football player and manager
Tommy Gunn (born 1967)American pornographic actor
Moses Gunn (1929–1993)American actor

People named Gunn with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Gunn

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.