Gülden
given name · Latin script
Meaning: singular definite ablative of gül
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries
/ɟøldˈæn/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Gülden is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- AGAntigua & Barbuda≈1 in 20Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway1 in 57K
- DEGermany≈1 in 88K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 207 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.6K (inferred from the name graph)
972 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Åland Islands, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Gulden in US United States, GB United Kingdom, NL Netherlands 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)singular definite ablative of gül
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gülden 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 972 | 1 in 342K | 1K | Gulden | 207 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 88K | — | Gülden | 67 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 365K | — | Gulden | 20 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 150 | 1 in 115K | 150 | Gulden | 24 |
| BR Brazil | — | 109 | 1 in 1.9M | 109 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 96 | 1 in 57K | 96 | Gulden | 16 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #774 | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Gulden | 1 |
| AX Åland Islands | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | — | Gulden | 1 |
972 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2000; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)Gülden 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, Gül soluklu, nefesi gül kokan.
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)- Gülden Turalıb. 1936TRTurkish violinist (1936–2002)
- Gulden Usman Gitmezb. 1941TRTurkish geologist, and palaeobotanist
- Gülden Karaböcekb. 1953TRTurkish musician (born 1953)
- Gülden Artunb. 1953TRTurkish painter (born 1953)
- Gülden Güneyb. 1977TRTurkish actor (born 1977)
- Gülden Kayalarb. 1980TRTurkish volleyball player (born 1980)
- Güldenb. 1983TRTurkish singer (born 1983)
- Gülden YılmazTRTurkish botanist
- Gülden PekcanTRTurkish scientist
- Gülden Eser KarlıdağTRTurkish physician and professor of medicine
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 46 | #8,884 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 44 | #12,770 |
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 Gülden mean, and where does it come from?
- singular definite ablative of gül Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Gülden?
- In Turkish /ɟøldˈæn/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Gülden a male or female name?
- Gülden is a female 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 Gülden have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 972 people named Gülden, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gulden.
- How common is the name Gülden?
- In the United States, the national register counted 972 people named Gülden in 2010, about 1 in 342 thousand residents.
- How common is Gülden compared with other names?
- In Antigua & Barbuda, Gülden is the 774th most common surname of 30,187 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Gülden?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/g%C3%BCldenThe 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, “Gülden” — the 774th most common surname in Antigua & Barbuda. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.