Gulnar
given name · Latin script
Meaning: scarlet
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʁʊɫnɑr/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gulnar is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kazakhstan than in any other country, where it is the 72nd most common given name.
- TMTurkmenistan≈1 in 567(inferred from the name graph)
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 592
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 2.4K
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 Gulnar 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.
- Kazakhstan (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 127 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 567 (inferred from the name graph)
≈29,000 named Гульнар, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Turkmenistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Гульнар in KZ Kazakhstan, RU Russia and Гулнар in KG Kyrgyzstan.
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)
scarlet
Sources 1
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gulnar 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KZ Kazakhstan | #72 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 660 | 731 | Гульнар | 43 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #75 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 592 | 148 | Gulnar | 40 |
| TM Turkmenistan | #79 | ≈9,800 est. | ≈1 in 567 | — | Gulnar | 13 |
| RU Russia | #650 | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 28K | #623 | Гульнар | 127 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #437 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Гулнар | 12 |
| BG Bulgaria | — | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Gulnar | 11 |
| US United States | — | 175 | 1 in 1.9M | 173 | Gulnar | 75 |
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: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)
Gulnar 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, present indicative of gulna
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Gulnara Kadraliyevab. 1961KGnot in their usual nameKyrgyz actress
- Gulnara Sachsb. 1963KZnot in their usual nameEnglish chess player
- Goulnara Arzhantsevab. 1973RUnot in their usual nameRussian mathematician and university teacher
- Gulnar Hayitbayevab. 1985TMTurkmenistani judoka (* 1985)
- Golnar Shahyarb. 1985IRnot in their usual nameIranian-Canadian musician
- Gulnar Ebilovab. 1990AZbadminton player
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 23 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 173 | #41,689 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2 | #41,689 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Gulnar mean, and where does it come from?
- scarlet Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman.
- How do you pronounce Gulnar?
- A machine transcription gives /ʁʊɫnɑr/ (IPA) for Turkmen.
- Is Gulnar a male or female name?
- Gulnar is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Gulnar?
- In the etymology graph, Gulnara, Gulnora and Gülnarə are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Gulnar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 29 thousand people named Гульнар in Kazakhstan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Gulnar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 175 people named Gulnar in 2020, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.
- How common is Gulnar compared with other names?
- In Kazakhstan, Gulnar is the 72nd most common given name of 274,628 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Gulnar?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gulnarThe 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, “Gulnar” — the 72nd most common given name in Kazakhstan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.