Gunay

given name · Latin script

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

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

Gunay is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.

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

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)

≈60,000 people, 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.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

GunayLatin(measured from records)
ГунаыCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Günay in TR Türkiye, DE Germany, NL Netherlands 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

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

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gunay 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 Gunay 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—1271 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)

Gunay is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Türkiye, Belgium, Azerbaijan

    Also written Günay, Günày

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Philippines, United States, Azerbaijan

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Günay, Guñay, Gūnay

  • Polish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Poland

    Also written Günay

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Gŭnay, Guñay, Günay

  • Danish given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Türkiye, Sweden, Azerbaijan

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Günay

38 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Gunay 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 phi-pro, movement; to move

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

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.

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHi Gunay,

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 23 sources across 16 countries.

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)

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 Gunay?
A machine transcription gives /ɟunaj/ (IPA) for Azerbaijani.
Is Gunay a male or female name?
Gunay is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Gunay have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 60 thousand people named Gunay in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled günay.
How common is the name Gunay?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 127 people named Gunay in 2007, about 1 in 136 thousand residents.
How common is Gunay compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Gunay 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, “Gunay” — the 145th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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