Gumersindo

Usages: Spanish (Rare), Galician, Portuguese (Rare)

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Pronunciation: goo-mer-SIN-do

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Meaning: Meaning uncertain, but thought to be of Germanic origin. The first element is probably *guma meaning "man" (see Gumarich), but there might also be a chance that it is a corruption of *gund meaning "war" (see Gundisalvus). The second element is probably *sinths meaning "path" (see Rudesind), though it could also be the very similar svinths meaning "strength" (which is swind in Old High German).

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Note: the name is likely mentioned on either page 131 or 132 of "Diccionario de Nombres de Personas" (1993) written by José M. Albaigés Olivart. I cannot say for certain, since those two pages are currently inaccessible to me:
• https://books.google.de/books?id=A_KHaYiixzwC&pg=PA130 (in Spanish; this is page 130, which begins with the name Gualda and ends with the name Guiniforte)

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- https://www.conmishijos.com/nombres/gumersindo/ (in Spanish)
- https://es.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gumersindo (in Spanish)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_naming_customs#Spanish_hypocoristics_and_nicknames (in English)
- Gumersindo meaning "home forte" i.e. "strong man" in Galician: https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_de_nomes_masculinos_en_galego#G (in Galician)
- https://www.ine.es/tnombres/formGeneralresult.do?vista=3 (in Spanish)
- http://www.ige.eu/igebdt/esq.jsp?idioma=gl&ruta=onomast/nomes.jsp (in Spanish)
- Gumesind (masculine) and Gomoswind (feminine) on page 692 of "Altdeutsches Namenbuch" (1900) written by Ernst Förstemann: https://archive.org/details/altdeutschesnam00seelgoog/page/n359/mode/2up (in German)
- Gundesindus (unisex depending on the variant) and Guntaswind (feminine) on page 709 of "Altdeutsches Namenbuch" (1900) written by Ernst Förstemann: https://archive.org/details/altdeutschesnam00seelgoog/page/n367/mode/2up (in German)
- (general): https://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/?first=Gumersindo&last=&search=Zoeken

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I am intrigued by the fact that this name has a (seemingly unnecessary) 'r' in it. Could it perhaps mean that this name has three elements instead of the usual two? This phenomenon also only seems to occur (in this case) with GUNDI names, not GUMA names. For example, see the feminine names Gundrisma (page 696) and Gundrildis (page 712) in Förstemann's book. The second element of the latter should be 'hild' meaning "battle". Or could it actually be 'gild', in which case the 'r' is a misreading of the 'g' or something along those lines?