Gülen
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gülen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Gülümseyen, güler yüzlü.
- DKDenmark1 in 43K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 136K
- NONorway1 in 152K
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 Gülen 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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 75 (measured from records)
- 1 in 43K (inferred from the name graph)
≈270 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Gulen in TR Türkiye, PH Philippines, SE Sweden and 1 more and Guelen in NL Netherlands, CH Switzerland.
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)
Gülümseyen, güler yüzlü.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gülen 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 403K | — | Gulen | 20 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 470K | — | Gulen | 53 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 173as Guelen | 1 in 100K | 173 | Guelen | 24 |
| DK Denmark | — | 135 | 1 in 43K | 135 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 99as Guelen | 1 in 2.1M | 99 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 62 | 1 in 136K | 62 | Guelen | 4 |
| SE Sweden | — | 45 | 1 in 227K | 45 | Gulen | 7 |
| NO Norway | — | 36 | 1 in 152K | 36 | — | 1 |
| DM Dominica | #826 | — | — | — | Gulen | 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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)
- Fethullah Gülenb. 1941TRTurkish preacher and imam (1941–2024)
- Ömer Gülenb. 1954TRTurkish association football player (born 1954)
- Nur Mustafa Gülenb. 1960TRTurkish association football player and manager (born 1960)
- Can Gülenb. 1962TRTurkish mechanical engineer (born 1962)
- Levent Gülenb. 1994CHTurkish association football player (born 1994)
- Salih GülenTRTurkish historian and writer
- Dinçer GülenTRTurkish zoologist
- Mahir GülenTRTurkish 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 16 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 135 | #4,047 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 62 | #15,845 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 45 | #13,719 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 41 | #34,937 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Gülen mean?
- Recorded meaning: Gülümseyen, güler yüzlü.
- In which country does Gülen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 271 people named Gülen in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gulen.
- Where is Gülen most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gülen is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 43 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gülen?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 135 people named Gülen, about 1 in 43 thousand residents.
- How common is Gülen compared with other names?
- In Dominica, Gülen is the 826th most common surname of 841 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Gülen” — the 826th most common surname in Dominica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.