Gülay
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gülay is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Güllerin açtığı ay.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 688(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 2.6K
- NLNetherlands1 in 86K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 52 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 688 (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Güllerin açtığı ay.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gülay 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 | #177 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 688 | #98 | Gülay | 52 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 18 | — | — |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 1.2K | Gülay | 6 |
| CY Cyprus | #142 | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Gülay | 11 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 34K | 1 | Gülay | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 201 | 1 in 86K | 201 | Gülay | 7 |
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; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Gülay Uğuratab. 1940TRTurkish pianist (1940–1995)
- Gülay Olt-Sahinerb. 1954TRTurkish-Austrian singer (born 1954)
- Gülay Barbarosoğlub. 1956TRTurkish industrial engineer (born 1956)
- Gülay Baltacıb. 1963TRTurkish actor (born 1963)
- Gülay Çokayb. 1964TRTurkish statesperson (born 1964)
- Gülay Pınarbaşıb. 1969TRTurkish actor (born 1969)
- Gülay Sezerb. 1970TRTurkish musician (born 1970)
- Gülay Yedekcib. 1976TRTurkish statesperson (born 1976)
- Gülay Samancıb. 1977TRTurkish statesperson (born 1977)
- Gülay Hüseynovab. 1989AZAzerbaijani actress
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 25 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 28 | #42,552 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #162,563 |
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 Gülay mean?
- Recorded meaning: Güllerin açtığı ay.
- Is Gülay a male or female name?
- Gülay is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Gülay have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 119 thousand people named Gülay in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gülay.
- How common is the name Gülay?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 201 people named Gülay, about 1 in 86 thousand residents.
- How common is Gülay compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Gülay is the 177th most common given name of 264,080 given names 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, “Gülay” — the 177th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.