Gulsen
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡuɫsen/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gulsen is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. In Cyprus it is the 75th most common given name.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 893(inferred from the name graph)
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 2K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 3.4K
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
- 93 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 893 (inferred from the name graph)
≈92,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Gülşen in TR Türkiye, DE Germany, BG Bulgaria and 2 more, Gülşən in AZ Azerbaijan and Gulşen in TM Turkmenistan.
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 across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gulsen 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 | #146 | ≈92,000 est. | ≈1 in 893 | #100 | Gülşen | 68 |
| BG Bulgaria | #550 | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Gülşen | 12 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Gülşen | 2 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #114 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | 208 | Gülşən | 9 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Gülşen | 52 |
| TM Turkmenistan | #924 | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | — | Gulşen | 4 |
| CY Cyprus | #75 | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Gülşen | 9 |
| US United States | — | 139 | 1 in 2.4M | 138 | Gulsen | 74 |
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; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Gülsen Tuncerb. 1945TRTurkish actor (born 1945)
- Gülsen Bozkurtb. 1950TRTurkish Cypriot physician and statesperson (born 1950)
- Gülşen Karakadıoğlub. 1950TRTurkish art critic and playwright (born 1950)
- Gülşen Bubikoğlub. 1954TRTurkish actor (born 1954)
- Gülşen Aktaşb. 1957TRTurkish educator and social worker (born 1957)
- Dilber Ayb. 1958TRnot in their usual nameTurkish actor (1958–1995)
- Gülşen Değenerb. 1968TRTurkish pool player (born 1968)
- Gulshan Aliyeva-Kengerlib. 1970AZnot in their usual nameAzerbaijani philologist
- Gulsen Yildirimb. 1972FRFrench politician
- Gülşenb. 1976TRTurkish singer (born 1976)
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 16 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
- How do you pronounce Gulsen?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡuɫsen/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- Is Gulsen a male or female name?
- Gulsen 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 Gulsen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 92 thousand people named Gulsen in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gülşen.
- How common is the name Gulsen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 139 people named Gulsen in 2020, about 1 in 2.4 million residents.
- How common is Gulsen compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Gulsen is the 146th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Gulsen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gulsenThe 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, “Gulsen” — the 146th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.