Giray
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Eskiden Kırım hanlarının ve han ailesinden olan prenslerin kullandığı san
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Giray is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 18K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 20K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 39K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 78 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Eskiden Kırım hanlarının ve han ailesinden olan prenslerin kullandığı san.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Giray 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 | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Giray | 6 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Giray | 78 |
| US United States | ≈88 est. | ≈1 in 3.8M | listed | Giray | 54 |
| FR France | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 856K | 10 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | 52 | 1 in 107K | 52 | Giray | 4 |
| CY Cyprus | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Giray | 8 |
| MD Moldova | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 139K | 2 | — | 2 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); e-services.md — living population register. 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)
Giray 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 duo, finger
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)
- Selim I Girayb. 1631UAkhan of the Crimean Khanate
- Selim III Girayb. 1713TRCrimean Khan
- Şahin Girayb. 1745TRCrimean Khan
- Joseph-Lucien Girayb. 1864FRroman-catholic archbishop (1864-1939)
- Nafiz Girayb. 1927TRTurkish statesperson (1927–1994)
- Safa Girayb. 1931TRTurkish statesperson (1931–2011)
- Necati Girayb. 1933TRTurkish composer (born 1933)
- Tufan Girayb. 1947TRTurkish actor (born 1947)
- Kaya Girayb. 1995TRTurkish actor and musician (born 1995)
- Esra GirayTRTurkish 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 25 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 52 | #21,882 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 29 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 3 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
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 Giray mean?
- Recorded meaning: Eskiden Kırım hanlarının ve han ailesinden olan prenslerin kullandığı san.
- In which country does Giray have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.4 thousand people named Giray in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled giray.
- How common is the name Giray?
- In Finland, the national register counted 52 people named Giray, about 1 in 107 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/girayThe 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, “Giray”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.