Guran
loc · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Guran is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Recorded meaning: “Man of stone”, from gur (“stone”). Compare Serbo-Croatian Goran.
- NONorway1 in 171K(measured from records)
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 315K
- ATAustria≈1 in 461K
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)
- Record sources
- 101 (measured from records)
- 1 in 171K (inferred from the name graph)
≈260 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Güran in AT Austria, DE Germany, TR Türkiye and Gueran in US United States.
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)“Man of stone”, from gur (“stone”). Compare Serbo-Croatian Goran.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Guran 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 | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 315K | — | Güran | 9 |
| US United States | 141 | 1 in 2.4M | 149 | Gueran | 101 |
| DE Germany | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 932K | — | Güran | 38 |
| ES Spain | 67 | 1 in 747K | 67 | — | 3 |
| FR France | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | 16 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 32 | 1 in 171K | 32 | — | 1 |
| AT Austria | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 461K | — | Güran | 9 |
| SE Sweden | 12 | 1 in 850K | 12 | — | 2 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)Guran 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 Kurdish, Wolves
as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary
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)- Nazife Güranb. 1921TRTurkish composer (1921–1993)
- Virgil Guranb. 1965RORomanian politician
- Petre Guranb. 1972RORomanian historian
- Moise Guranb. 1974RORomanian journalist
- Ana Maria Guranb. 1995RORomanian actress
- Cornel GuranRORomanian politician from Ghilad, Sibiu County
- Liliana GuranROPh.D. Babeş-Bolyai University 2009
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)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 149 | #121,931 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 141 | #122,314 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 116 | #134,037 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 67 | #36,575 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 67 | #36,240 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 32 | #33,422 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 12 | #35,237 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Guran mean, and where does it come from?
- “Man of stone”, from gur (“stone”). Compare Serbo-Croatian Goran. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Guran have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 260 people named Guran in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled güran.
- Where is Guran most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Guran is densest in Norway — about 1 in 171 thousand people — even though Türkiye holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Guran?
- In the United States, the national register counted 141 people named Guran in 2010, about 1 in 2.4 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/guranThe 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, “Guran”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.