Gökhan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name which means "the king of the sky"
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gökhan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 575(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 6.3K
- DEGermany≈1 in 9.7K
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
- 193 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 575 (inferred from the name graph)
≈140,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a male given name which means "the king of the sky"
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gökhan 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 | #145 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 575 | 163K | Gökhan | 167 |
| DE Germany | #765 | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | listed | Gökhan | 91 |
| AT Austria | #601 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | 65 | Gökhan | 27 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 60K | 675 | Gökhan | 3 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 5 | Gökhan | 40 |
| CY Cyprus | #165 | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Gökhan | 14 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 552 | 1 in 31K | 552 | Gökhan | 42 |
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: TÜİK NIP — most used given names; the de-munich-vornamen register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Gökhan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, Eski Türklerde gök Tanrısı.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Murat Bardakçıb. 1955TRnot in their usual nameTurkish journalist (born 1955)
- Gökhan Tiryakib. 1972TRTurkish cinematographer (born 1972)
- Hasan Şaşb. 1976TRnot in their usual nameTurkish association football player (born 1976)
- Gökhan Zanb. 1981TRTurkish association football player (born 1981)
- Gökhan Ünalb. 1982TRTurkish association football player (born 1982)
- Gökhan Sakib. 1983NLTurkish mixed martial artist (born 1983)
- Gökhan İnlerb. 1984CHTurkish-Swiss association football player (born 1984)
- Gökhan Gönülb. 1985TRTurkish footballer and manager (born 1985)
- Gökhan Töreb. 1992DETurkish association football player (born 1992)
- Gökhan Akkanb. 1995TRTurkish association football player (born 1995)
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 27 sources across 14 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 Gökhan mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name which means "the king of the sky" Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Gökhan a male or female name?
- Gökhan 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 Gökhan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 143 thousand people named Gökhan in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gökhan.
- How common is the name Gökhan?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 552 people named Gökhan, about 1 in 31 thousand residents.
- How common is Gökhan compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Gökhan is the 145th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/g%C3%B6khanThe 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, “Gökhan” — the 145th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.