Gunsel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Synonym of catamite: a young man kept by an elder as a (usually passive) homosexual partner
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gunsel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 3.6M(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 4.2M
- USUnited States≈1 in 4.5M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 50 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.6M (inferred from the name graph)
≈74 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Günsel in TR Türkiye.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Synonym of catamite: a young man kept by an elder as a (usually passive) homosexual partner.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gunsel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 4.5M | listed | Gunsel | 50 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 3.6M | — | Günsel | 8 |
| CA Canada | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 4.2M | — | Gunsel | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 8.1M | — | Gunsel | 8 |
| RU Russia | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 18M | — | Gunsel | 1 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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)
- Enver GünselTRtranslator
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 3 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Gunsel mean, and where does it come from?
- Synonym of catamite: a young man kept by an elder as a (usually passive) homosexual partner. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Gunsel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 74 people named Gunsel in the United States, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gunsel.
- How common is the name Gunsel?
- Mondonomo estimates about 74 people in the United States have Gunsel as their first surname, about 1 in 4.5 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gunselThe 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, “Gunsel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.