Günal
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Günal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. Recorded meaning: "Aydın ol, aydınlan" anlamında kullanlıan bir ad.
- DKDenmark1 in 255K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 304K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 311K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 43 (measured from records)
- 1 in 255K (inferred from the name graph)
54 people, 2007
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Gunal in NL Netherlands.
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)
"Aydın ol, aydınlan" anlamında kullanlıan bir ad.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Günal 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 54 | 1 in 320K | 54 | Gunal | 8 |
| BE Belgium | 34 | 1 in 345K | 34 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 27 | 1 in 311K | 27 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | 23 | 1 in 255K | 23 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 18 | 1 in 304K | 18 | — | 1 |
54 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007, counting the spelling günal. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Neşet Günalb. 1923TRTurkish artist (1923–2002)
- Mehmet Nazif Günalb. 1948TRTurkish businessperson (born 1948)
- Sultan Günal-Gezerb. 1961NLDutch politician
- Mehmet Günalb. 1964TRTurkish statesperson (born 1964)
- Tülay Günalb. 1970TRTurkish actor (born 1970)
- Asena Günalb. 1973TRTurkish sociologist and curator (born 1973)
- Nil Günalb. 1981TRTurkish actor (born 1981)
- Abdulsamet Günalb. 1988TRTurkish Olympic wrestler
- Melike Günalb. 1998TRTurkish weightlifter (born 1998)
- Halil Ata GünalTRTurkish basketball referee
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 13 sources across 8 countries.
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 Günal mean?
- Recorded meaning: "Aydın ol, aydınlan" anlamında kullanlıan bir ad.
- In which country does Günal have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 54 people named Günal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gunal.
- Where is Günal most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Günal is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 255 thousand people — even though Netherlands holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Günal?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 54 people named Günal in 2007, about 1 in 320 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/g%C3%BCnalThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Günal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.