THE MEANING & THE CONTEXT
The story behind Gugma
Wolff records gugma as love, including affection within a family and love of an activity. This inspiration uses the noun itself rather than treating a derived form for a sweetheart as the same word.
A word, offered as inspiration. The dictionary supports its meaning; it does not establish use as a given name, a gender, or a popularity ranking.
Follow the sources
- John U. Wolff, A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan (1972) — gugma (opens in a new tab)
Cebuano lexical sense only; not evidence of given-name usage, gender, or frequency.