Gökmen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Sarışın, mavi gözlü kimse
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gökmen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 2.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 17K
- ATAustria≈1 in 44K
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)
- Sources
- 82 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈34,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Gokmen in FR France, NL Netherlands.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Sarışın, mavi gözlü kimse.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gökmen 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 | #280 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Gökmen | 76 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 44K | 5 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 155 | 1 in 111K | 155 | Gokmen | 14 |
| FR France | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 453K | 23 | Gokmen | 82 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Gökmen | 3 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Gökmen | 7 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)
- Fatin Gökmenb. 1877TRTurkish astronomer (1877–1955)
- Bedriye Tahir Gökmenb. 1896TRTurkish aircraft pilot (1896–1969)
- Muzaffer Gökmanb. 1915TRnot in their usual nameTurkish librarian (1915–1996)
- Oğuz Gökmenb. 1916TRTurkish diplomat (1916–2007)
- Sami Gökmenb. 1935TRTurkish statesperson (born 1935)
- Rengim Gökmenb. 1955TRTurkish conductor (born 1955)
- Jennifer Eaton Gökmenb. 1971USTurkish-American writer (born 1971)
- Gökcan Gökmenb. 1980TRTurkish actor (born 1980)
- Onur GökmenTRTurkish film producer
- Begüm Gürel GökmenTRTurkish researcher
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 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 155 | #13,186 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Gökmen mean?
- Recorded meaning: Sarışın, mavi gözlü kimse.
- In which country does Gökmen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 34 thousand people named Gökmen in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gökmen.
- How common is the name Gökmen?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 155 people named Gökmen in 2007, about 1 in 111 thousand residents.
- How common is Gökmen compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Gökmen is the 280th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/g%C3%B6kmenThe 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, “Gökmen” — the 280th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.