Guenay

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/ɡuənaɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Guenay is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.4Kas Günay(inferred from the name graph)
  • AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 21Kas Gunay
  • DEGermany≈1 in 42Kas Günay

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 Guenay 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.

Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)

≈60,000 named Günay, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
101 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Türkiye, est., as Günay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

GünayLatin(measured from records)
ГунаыCyrillic(measured from records)

Locally spelled Günay in TR Türkiye, DE Germany, NL Netherlands and 2 more and Gunay in AZ Azerbaijan, CY Cyprus, PH Philippines.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Guenay 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.

Where Guenay is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#145≈60,000 est.≈1 in 1.4K—Günay95
PH Philippines—≈1,900 est.≈1 in 57K—Gunay39
DE Germany—≈1,900 est.≈1 in 42K—Günay62
MK North Macedonia#442≈660 est.≈1 in 3.2K—Günay2
AZ Azerbaijan—≈490 est.≈1 in 21K311Gunay57
AT Austria—≈270 est.≈1 in 33K5Günay14
CY Cyprus#537≈130 est.≈1 in 9.5K—Gunay9
NL Netherlands—127as Günay1 in 136K127Günay15

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: Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Guenay is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Güenay

12 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalSehr geehrter Herr Guenay,Dear Mr Guenay, (English)
InformalHallo Guenay,Hi Guenay, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Guenay under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Guenay?
A machine transcription gives /ɡuənaɪ/ (IPA) for German.
In which country does Guenay have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 60 thousand people named Günay in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Guenay?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 127 people named Günay in 2007, about 1 in 136 thousand residents.
How common is Guenay compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Guenay is the 145th most common surname of 619,652 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, “Guenay” — the 145th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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