Gunes

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

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

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye1 in 361(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 31K
  • FRFrance≈1 in 59K

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 (measured from records)

227,203 people, 2025

Sources
4 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 361 (inferred from the name graph)

Türkiye

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gunes 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 Gunes is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye227,2031 in 361227K—1
FR France≈1,100 est.≈1 in 59K219——
NO Norway1761 in 31K176——
PL Poland1491 in 257K106——
US United States1371 in 2.4M234——
AZ Azerbaijan≈110 est.≈1 in 89K1—1
SE Sweden≈94 est.≈1 in 108K15——

227,203 people counted by TÜİK NIP — most used surnames, 2025. 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: TÜİK NIP — most used surnames; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. 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)

Gunes is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Turkish surname79 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom

    Languages: Turkish, German, English

    Also written Güneş, Günes, Guenes, Guneş, G'Üneş

  • French surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Türkiye, Belgium, Netherlands

    Also written Güneş, Günes, Gunès, Gűneş, Guneş

  • Polish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Poland, Netherlands

    Also written Güneş, Guneş, Günes, Ğüneş

  • Danish surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, Türkiye, United Kingdom

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Günes, Güneş, Günęs, Guneş

  • Portuguese surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Brazil, United States, Portugal

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Güneş, Günes, Guneş

  • Hindi surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Güneş, Guneş, Günes, Ğuneş

41 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

  • Selim Güneşb. 1961TRTurkish film director and screenwriter (born 1961)

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 29 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Gunes
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020234#85,854
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991219—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—176#8,945
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981144—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010137#125,282
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197150—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202615—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—15#105,583
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—11#36,712
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20268—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—8#152,189
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • 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)

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

In which country does Gunes have the most bearers?
In Türkiye, the national register counted about 227 thousand people named Gunes, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Gunes most common?
Gunes is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 361 people carrying it.
How common is the name Gunes?
In Türkiye, the national register counted 227,203 people named Gunes in 2025, about 1 in 361 residents.

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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, “Gunes”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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