Günes
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡyːnəs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Günes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 28th most common surname.
- TRTürkiye1 in 361(measured from records)
- ATAustria≈1 in 10K
- DEGermany≈1 in 25K
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)
- Sources
- 119 (measured from records)
- 1 in 361 (inferred from the name graph)
227,203 people, 2025
Highest-authority source
Türkiye
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Güneş in TR Türkiye, CY Cyprus, CH Switzerland and 1 more.
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 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Günes 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 | #28 | 227,203 | 1 in 361 | 227K | Güneş | 102 |
| DE Germany | #964 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Günes | 68 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | 1 | Güneş | 9 |
| AT Austria | #433 | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 36 | Günes | 16 |
| CY Cyprus | #48 | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Güneş | 7 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 514 | 1 in 16K | 514 | Güneş | 10 |
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; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Sertan Günesb. 1982ATAustrian association football player
- Karim Günesb. 1986DEGerman actor
- Zara Günesb. 1992DEGerman association football player
- Tolga Günesb. 1997ATAustrian association football player
- Murat GüneşTRTurkish actor
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 24 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 514 | #2,513 |
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
- How do you pronounce Günes?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡyːnəs/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Günes have the most bearers?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 227 thousand people named Günes, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled güneş.
- Where is Günes most common?
- Günes is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 361 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Günes?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 227,203 people named Günes in 2025, about 1 in 361 residents.
- How common is Günes compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Günes is the 28th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Günes?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/g%C3%BCnesThe 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, “Günes” — the 28th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.