Gun or Gunn is an old name formed from gunnr (battle) and is cognate with the Old English word "gúð". Gunnr is one of the valkyries. The equivalent male name is Gunnar.
The earliest attestation of the name is on the Rök runestone where it occurs as part of a kenning for wolf:
I say this the twelfth, where the horse of Gunnr sees fodder on the battlefield, where twenty kings lie...
Gun is the 56th most common female name in Sweden as of December 31, 2008, when 34,655 living people were named Gun in Sweden.
Famous Guns
Gun, a character from the horror comic series Witch Creek Road
Atthaphan Phunsawat, also known as Gun Atthaphan, Thai actor
Gun Adler, actress
Gun Nathalie Björn, Swedish footballer
Gun Andersson, actress
Gun Arvidsson, actress
Gun Carlson, politician
Gun Fors, actress
Gun Hellberg, actress
Gun Hellsvik, Swedish minister for Justice
Gun Holmquist, actress
Gun Holmqvist, actress
Gun Jönsson, actress
Gun Kessle, artist, married to Jan Myrdal
Gun Korawit Boonsri, Thai actor
Gun Lund, dancer and choreographer
Gun Robertson, actress
Gun Skoogberg, ballerina
Gun Chartree Sithananun, Thai guitarist