Gökay
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Mavi gözlü kimse
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gökay is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 9.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 17K
- ATAustria≈1 in 109K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 68 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Gokay in FR France.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Mavi gözlü kimse.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gökay counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | ≈8,500 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | — | Gökay | 64 |
| AT Austria | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 109K | 32 | — | — |
| CY Cyprus | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Gökay | 6 |
| FR France | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Gokay | 65 |
| BE Belgium | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 224K | — | Gökay | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | 51 | 1 in 339K | 51 | Gökay | 12 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 174K | 6 | Gökay | 3 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Gökay Sofuoglub. 1962TRTurkish politician (born 1962)
- Gökay Akbulutb. 1982TRTurkish-German politician (born 1982)
- Gökay Müftüoğlub. 1986TRTurkish actor (born 1986)
- Gökay Köhleb. 1987TRTurkish association football player (born 1987)
- Gökay Iravulb. 1992TRTurkish association football player (born 1992)
- Gökay Güneyb. 1999TRTurkish association football player (born 1999)
- Gökay Hacıoğlub. 2002TRTurkish basketball player (born 2002)
- Gökay Ekinb. 2004TRTurkish artist
- Gökay İlgezdiTRTurkish karateka
- Gökay AtabekTRTurkish researcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 11 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gökay mean?
- Recorded meaning: Mavi gözlü kimse.
- Is Gökay a male or female name?
- Gökay is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Gökay have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.5 thousand people named Gökay in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gökay.
- How common is the name Gökay?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 51 people named Gökay, about 1 in 339 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/g%C3%B6kayThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gökay”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.