Gonca
given name · Latin script
Meaning: flower bud
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Statistik Austria, 2021
/ɡonˈdʒa/(recorded in a dictionary) Turkish · from Wiktionary
Gonca is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 3.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 7.9Kfew records
- ATAustria≈1 in 51K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 84 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈22,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)flower bud
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gonca 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 | #908 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Gonca | 84 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Gonca | 6 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 51K | 10 | — | — |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 7.9K | — | Gonca | 9 |
| US United States | — | ≈85 est. | ≈1 in 4M | — | Gonca | 65 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 61 | 1 in 283K | 61 | Gonca | 15 |
| GE Georgia | — | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 83K | — | Gonca | 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Gonca 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 Turkish, Tam açılmamış çiçek, gül.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name 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)- Gonca Usb. 1969TRTurkish fashion model (1969–1996)
- Gonca Türkeli-Dehnertb. 1975DEGerman lawyer and politician
- Gonca Nahcıvanlıb. 1979TRTurkish handball player (born 1979)
- Gonca Özmenb. 1982TRTurkish poet (born 1982)
- Gonca de Haasb. 1985DEGerman actress
- Gonca Vuslaterib. 1986TRTurkish actor (born 1986)
- Gonca Sarıyıldızb. 1987TRTurkish actor (born 1987)
- Gonca Gülerb. 2000TRTurkish taekwondoin (born 2000)
- Gonca YakutTRTurkish actor
- Gonca GümüsayakTRTurkish choreographer
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 61 | #7,474 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 54 | #11,332 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2021 | 10 | #1,876 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2014 | 2 | #1,353 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 1998 | 2 | #703 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2021 | 1 | #2,541 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2005 | 1 | #1,747 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2003 | 1 | #1,552 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2002 | 1 | #1,467 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2000 | 1 | #1,292 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 1999 | 1 | #1,222 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- 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 Gonca mean, and where does it come from?
- flower bud Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Gonca?
- In the etymology graph, Gonxhe and Ghoncheh are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Gonca?
- In Turkish /ɡonˈdʒa/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Gonca a male or female name?
- Gonca 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 Gonca have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 22 thousand people named Gonca in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gonca.
- How common is the name Gonca?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 61 people named Gonca, about 1 in 283 thousand residents.
- How common is Gonca compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Gonca is the 908th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Gonca?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/goncaThe 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, “Gonca” — the 908th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.