Gölen
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Gölen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Origin unidentified.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 212K(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 23K
- USUnited States1 in 723K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 11 (measured from records)
- 1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
1,670 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Origin unidentified.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gölen 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 1,670 | 1 in 23K | 855 | — | — |
| US United States | 460 | 1 in 723K | 461 | — | 1 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 212K | — | Gölen | 11 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Gölen | 3 |
| NO Norway | 5 | 1 in 1.1M | 5 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | — |
1,670 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)Gölen 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 Swedish, definite singular of göl
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #262,100 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gölen mean, and where does it come from?
- Origin unidentified. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Gölen have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Gölen, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Gölen most common?
- Gölen is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 23 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gölen?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,670 people named Gölen in 2026, about 1 in 23 thousand 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, “Gölen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.