Gunda
Gunda is a family name and a female given name, which is an old German short form of names ending with -gunda or -gunde, especially for Gudrun (name) . These are derived from the Old High German word gund , which means fight or pus . There is the Gundelrebe , which is used as a medicinal plant for pus wounds. Gunda as a first name means something like "the little fighter".
Trivia
In the 1960s, Gunda was ranked 160th of the most popular first names for newborn women in Germany and 122nd in the 1950s.
Well-known namesake
- Gunda Ebert (* 1969), German actress
- Gunda Gottschalk (* 1969), German violinist in the field of improvised and contemporary music
- Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann (* 1966), German speed skater
- Gunda Röstel (* 1962), German manager
- Gunda Schihan (1921–2006), Austrian ceramicist
- Gunda Schneider-Flume (* 1941), German Protestant theologian
- Gunda Werner (1951–2000), German feminist and namesake of the Heinrich Böll Foundation's institute of the same name
Individual evidence
- ^ Popular- first names.de 1960s. Retrieved April 13, 2019 .