Gül
surname · Latin script
Meaning: rose
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɟyl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gül is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. In Türkiye it is the 30th most common surname.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 462(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 1K
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 1.3K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 180 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 462 (inferred from the name graph)
≈230,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Gul in PK Pakistan, AF Afghanistan, ID Indonesia.
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)
rose
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 32 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gül 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈230,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Gul | 129 |
| TR Türkiye | #30 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 462 | #100 | Gül | 126 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 1 | Gul | 34 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 130K | — | Gul | 26 |
| MK North Macedonia | #183 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Gül | 4 |
| PL Poland | — | 1,140 | 1 in 34K | 589 | — | — |
| CY Cyprus | #126 | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Gül | 11 |
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: Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Gül is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, Katmerli, kokulu çiçekleri olan, pek çok türleri bulunan gülgillerin örnek bitkisi.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In German, weibl. Vom. türkischer Herkunft (pers./ türk, gül »Rose«).
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In trk-pro, 1 vestibule, inner porch 2 house, hut 3 home, dwelling-place
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Azerbaijani, flower
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Turkmen, Gül ýaly owadan, ýakymly, özüne çekiji gyz bolsun.
as a wordturkmenkultur.com — Türkmen Adam Atlary (Turkmen personal names, Kylyç 1998)
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)
- Abdullah Gülb. 1950TR11th President of Turkey (born 1950)
- Hayrünnisa Gülb. 1965TRFirst Lady of Turkey (b. 1965)
- Erdem Gülb. 1967TRTurkish journalist and statesperson (born 1967)
- Abdulhamit Gülb. 1977TRTurkish politician
- Yekta Yılmaz Gülb. 1978TRTurkish wrestler (born 1978)
- Demet Gülb. 1982DEGerman actress of Turkish origin
- Şifanur Gülb. 1997TRTurkish actor (born 1997)
- Gökhan Gülb. 1998DETurkish-German association football player (born 1998)
- Deniz Gülb. 2004SETurkish association football player (born 2004)
- Messi Gulactor
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 29 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 104 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 104 | #28,577 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 35 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 35 | #63,396 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Gül mean, and where does it come from?
- rose Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Gül?
- A machine transcription gives /ɟyl/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Gül have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 232 thousand people named Gül in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gul.
- How common is the name Gül?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,140 people named Gül in 2026, about 1 in 34 thousand residents.
- How common is Gül compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Gül is the 30th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/g%C3%BClThe 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, “Gül” — the 30th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.