Gur
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Biblical name
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡɜː/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gur is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- ILIsrael1 in 2.8Kas גור
- INIndia1 in 286Kas Ghor
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 Gur 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 95 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈52,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Gür in TR Türkiye, NL Netherlands, CY Cyprus and גור in IL Israel, DE Germany, QA Qatar.
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)
Biblical name
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gur 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 | #185 | ≈52,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Gür | 83 |
| US United States | — | 25,648as Gore | 1 in 13K | 26K | Gur | 95 |
| IN India | — | 4,631as Ghor | 1 in 286K | 4.6K | Gur | 83 |
| IL Israel | #221 | 3,080as גור | 1 in 2.8K | 3.1K | גור | 84 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | גור | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 171 | 1 in 101K | 171 | Gür | 12 |
| CY Cyprus | #670 | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 9.6K | — | Gür | 8 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈89 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | גור | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
Gur is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Irish, that (used to introduce a subordinate clause beginning with a verb in the past tense, with the exception of some irregular verbs)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, mud leaking from decomposing rock, a deposit thereof, guhr
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Azerbaijani, heavy, intense (of great force, power, or intensity)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ISO 639-3 language code for Farefare.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Sundanese, loud rustling sound, as of heavy rain
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Gur Bentwichb. 1964ILIsraeli actor
- Gur Lavyb. 2001ILIsraeli basketball player (born 2001)
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)
Attested in 29 sources across 17 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Gur mean, and where does it come from?
- Biblical name Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How do you pronounce Gur?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡɜː/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Gur a male or female name?
- Gur is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Gur have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 52 thousand people named Gur in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gür.
- How common is the name Gur?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 171 people named Gur in 2007, about 1 in 101 thousand residents.
- How common is Gur compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Gur is the 185th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Gur?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gurThe 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, “Gur” — the 185th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.