Gulbahar
given name · Latin script
Meaning: flower of spring
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Gulbahar is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. In Turkmenistan it is the 37th most common given name.
- TMTurkmenistan≈1 in 393(inferred from the name graph)
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.6K
- UZUzbekistan≈1 in 5.3K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 41 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 393 (inferred from the name graph)
≈52,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Turkmenistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Gülbahar in TR Türkiye, BG Bulgaria, UZ Uzbekistan and 2 more.
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)
flower of spring
Sources 1
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gulbahar 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 | #402 | ≈52,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Gülbahar | 41 |
| TM Turkmenistan | #37 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 393 | — | Gulbahar | 8 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | listed | Gülbahar | 5 |
| CN China | — | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 415K | — | Gülbahar | 3 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #654 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | 36 | Gulbahar | 12 |
| BG Bulgaria | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | — | Gülbahar | 11 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 58 | 1 in 298K | 58 | Gülbahar | 7 |
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; the uz-ismlarim register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)
Gulbahar 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 French, a female given name from Uyghur
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)
- Gülbahar Hatunb. 1450TRConcubine of Bayezid II and mother of Selim I
- Mahidevran Hatunb. 1500TRnot in their usual nameConcubine of Suleiman the Magnificent
- Gülbahar Kültürb. 1965TRTurkish translator and writer (born 1965)
- Gülbahar Akgülb. 1987TRTurkish volleyball player (born 1987)
- Gülbahar Özdemirb. 1997TRTurkish association football player (born 1997)
- Gülbahar Gözütokb. 2002TRTurkish karateka (born 2002)
- Emine Gülbahar HatunTRConcubine of Mehmed II and mother of Bayezid II
- Gülbahar Korkmaz AslanTRTurkish 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 21 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UZ Uzbekistan | ismlarim.uz — Uzbek given names | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
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 Gulbahar mean, and where does it come from?
- flower of spring Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman.
- Is Gulbahar a male or female name?
- Gulbahar 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.
- In which country does Gulbahar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 52 thousand people named Gulbahar in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gülbahar.
- How common is the name Gulbahar?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 58 people named Gulbahar, about 1 in 298 thousand residents.
- How common is Gulbahar compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Gulbahar is the 402nd most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gulbaharThe 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, “Gulbahar” — the 402nd most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.