Göksel
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Gökle ilgili, semavi
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Göksel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 842Kas Goeksel(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 60K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 188K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Göksel itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 75 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 60K (inferred from the name graph)
≈240 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Cyprus, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Goksel in TR Türkiye, FR France, US United States and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Gökle ilgili, semavi.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Göksel 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 | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 346K | — | Goksel | 55 |
| DE Germany | ≈95 est. | ≈1 in 842K | listed | Göksel | 45 |
| FR France | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 845K | — | Goksel | 70 |
| US United States | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 4.9M | — | Goksel | 75 |
| BE Belgium | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 188K | 14 | Goksel | 6 |
| AT Austria | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 259K | 2 | Göksel | 9 |
| NL Netherlands | 28 | 1 in 617K | 28 | Goksel | 6 |
| CY Cyprus | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Goksel | 10 |
| IS Iceland | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
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: the de-munich-vornamen register; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
- Göksel Arsoyb. 1936TRTurkish actor (born 1936)
- Göksel Kalaycıoğlub. 1936TRTurkish statesperson (born 1936)
- Göksel Kortayb. 1939TRTurkish actor (born 1939)
- Göksel Göksub. 1961TRTurkish journalist (born 1961)
- Göksel Baktagirb. 1966TRTurkish composer (born 1966)
- Gökselb. 1971TRTurkish singer (born 1971)
- Göksel Gümüşdağb. 1972TRTurkish businessperson (born 1972)
- Göksel Gencerb. 1974TRTurkish association football player (1974–2019)
- Göksel Akıncıb. 1977TRTurkish association football player (born 1977)
- Göksel Kundakçıb. 1988TRTurkish badminton player (born 1988)
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 21 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 28 | #9,527 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 24 | #17,689 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2008 | 2 | #1,142 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 1 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2009 | 1 | #1,302 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2008 | 1 | #1,613 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2000 | 1 | #1,096 |
| DE Germany | Stadt München Open Data — Vornamen von Nulljährigen | 2023 | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
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 Göksel mean?
- Recorded meaning: Gökle ilgili, semavi.
- Is Göksel a male or female name?
- Göksel 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 Göksel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 237 people named Göksel in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled goksel.
- How common is the name Göksel?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 28 people named Göksel, about 1 in 617 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/g%C3%B6kselThe 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, “Göksel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.