Is There a Gunnarson Coat of Arms?

Gunnarson sits within the Gunderson family of names, which has Norwegian roots. The family name meaning is “Son of Gunder”, the same as for Gunderson.

Arms associated with the name

Arms linked to Gunderson and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Spelling and variants

Before spelling was fixed, Gunderson was also written Gunnarson. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists. The same family of names includes Gundersen and Gunderssen.

The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Gunnarson with 462 bearers, at rank 46,138. It sits among the 50,000 most common last names in the country. Research your Gunnarson family history with a full surname report and painted coat of arms.