Gürsoy
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɟyɾs̪oj/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gürsoy is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 2.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 15K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 74K
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
- 56 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈38,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gürsoy 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 | #259 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Gürsoy | 56 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 144 | 1 in 120K | 144 | Gürsoy | 9 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 114 | 1 in 74K | 114 | Gürsoy | 6 |
| US United States | — | 104 | 1 in 3.2M | 158 | Gürsoy | 16 |
| CY Cyprus | #800 | ≈84 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Gürsoy | 6 |
| DK Denmark | — | 55 | 1 in 107K | 55 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 46 | 1 in 119K | 46 | — | 6 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); 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)
- Bedri Gürsoyb. 1904TRTurkish association football player (1904–1993)
- Bedri Gürsoyb. 1916TRTurkish statesperson (1916–1991)
- Nilüfer Gürsoyb. 1921TRTurkish statesperson (1921–2024)
- Hüseyin Gürsoyb. 1934TRTurkish wrestler (1934–1993)
- Emin Gürsoyb. 1968TRTurkish actor (born 1968)
- Yaşar Gürsoyb. 1968TRTurkish journalist (born 1968)
- Dilek Gürsoyb. 1976DETurco-German cardiac surgeon
- Gürhan Gürsoyb. 1987TRTurkish association football player (born 1987)
- Güven Gürsoyb. 1992TRTurkish association football player (born 1992)
- Koda GursoyTRactor
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 144 | #14,005 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 114 | #9,971 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 55 | #9,756 |
Reference works 4
- 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)
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
- How do you pronounce Gürsoy?
- A machine transcription gives /ɟyɾs̪oj/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Gürsoy have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 38 thousand people named Gürsoy in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gürsoy.
- How common is the name Gürsoy?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 144 people named Gürsoy in 2007, about 1 in 120 thousand residents.
- How common is Gürsoy compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Gürsoy is the 259th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Gürsoy?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/g%C3%BCrsoyThe 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, “Gürsoy” — the 259th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.