Genç
surname · Latin script
Meaning: young
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ɡentʃ/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Genç is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 61st most common surname.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 650(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 1.7Kfew records
- ATAustria≈1 in 13Kfew records
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 Genç itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 269 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 651 (inferred from the name graph)
≈130,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Genc in DE Germany, NL Netherlands, AT Austria, Gantz in US United States and גנץ in IL Israel.
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)young
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Genç 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 | #61 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 651 | — | Genç | 107 |
| US United States | — | 3,177as Gantz | 1 in 105K | 3.2K | Gantz | 269 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 29K | listed | Genc | 106 |
| IL Israel | #734 | 1,297as גנץ | 1 in 6.7K | 1.3K | גנץ | 33 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 993as Ganz | 1 in 8.5K | 993 | Genç | 19 |
| CY Cyprus | #89 | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Genç | 11 |
| AT Austria | #765 | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 9 | Genc | 35 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 520 | 1 in 33K | 520 | Genc | 27 |
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; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Genç 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 Turkish, 1. Yaşı ilerlememiş olan. 2. Dinç, sağlıklı.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
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)- Mehmet Gençb. 1934TRTurkish historian (1934–2021)
- Kamer Gençb. 1940TRTurkish statesperson (1940–2016)
- Nihat Gençb. 1956TRTurkish journalist and writer (1956–2025)
- Nurullah Gençb. 1960TRTurkish economist and writer (born 1960)
- Aytek Gençb. 1966TRTurkish-Australian association football player (born 1966)
- Taha Gençb. 1979TRTurkish politician (born 1979)
- Kaya Gençb. 1981TRTurkish novelist (born 1981)
- Burhan Genç Koçb. 1983DKDanish singer-songwriter and producer
- Selin Gençb. 1994TRTurkish actor and fashion model (born 1994)
- Yusuf Fehmi Gençb. 2002TRTurkish weightlifter (born 2002)
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 520 | #3,721 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 178 | #6,897 |
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 Genç mean, and where does it come from?
- young Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Genç?
- In Turkish /ɡentʃ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Genç have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 131 thousand people named Genç in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled genç.
- How common is the name Genç?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 520 people named Genç in 2007, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.
- How common is Genç compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Genç is the 61st 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/gen%C3%A7The 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, “Genç” — the 61st most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.