Gönen

loc · Latin script

Meaning: 1. "Mutlu ol, refaha kavuş, rahat et, sevin" anlamında kullanılan bir ad.2

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/ɟœnˈæn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Gönen is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 6.5K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 2.6M
  • ILIsrael≈1 in 13K

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)

≈13,000 people, est.

Sources
126 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 6.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Türkiye, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

Locally spelled Gonen in US United States, IL Israel, DE Germany and 2 more and Goenen in BE Belgium.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Turkish

1. "Mutlu ol, refaha kavuş, rahat et, sevin" anlamında kullanılan bir ad.2. "Yavrum, kuzum" anlamında sevgi belirten sözcük. 3. Bolluk, bereket.

Sources 1

  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gönen 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.

Where Gönen is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye≈13,000 est.≈1 in 6.5K—Gönen36
IL Israel≈660 est.≈1 in 13K—Gonen46
DE Germany≈340 est.≈1 in 233K—Gonen34
US United States1291 in 2.6M163Gonen126
AT Austria≈110 est.≈1 in 78K—Gonen9
BE Belgium1081 in 109K108Goenen11
CY Cyprus≈29 est.≈1 in 44K—Gonen4

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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gönen is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Israel, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Gonen, Gönén, Gonén

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gonen

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, India, United States

    Also written Gonen

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iraq

    Also written Gonen

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gonen

  • Norwegian name6 spellings in the group

    Languages: Norwegian, Swedish

    Also written Gonen

  • Bulgarian name9 spellings in the group

    Also written Gonen, Гьонен

24 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1940196019802000Turan Gönen, b. 1941Akın Gönen, b. 1942Mustafa Sait Gönen, b. 1960Cenk Gönen, b. 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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 12 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Gönen
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)2008108#14,688

Reference works 3

  • 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)

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

How do you pronounce Gönen?
A machine transcription gives /ɟœnˈæn/ (IPA) for Turkish.
What does the name Gönen mean?
Recorded meaning: 1. "Mutlu ol, refaha kavuş, rahat et, sevin" anlamında kullanılan bir ad.2.
In which country does Gönen have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Gönen in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gönen.
How common is the name Gönen?
In the United States, the national register counted 129 people named Gönen in 2010, about 1 in 2.6 million residents.

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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, “Gönen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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