Sunay

given name · Turkish · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Sunay is a given name, most frequently recorded in Türkiye. It appears chiefly in Turkish and Hindi, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Ay gibi parlak olan, parıltı veren.

rarermore common
  • AZAzerbaijan1 in 3.4K◐
  • TRTürkiye1 in 7.6K
  • CYCyprus1 in 12K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈193 ●

across 8 countries

Sources
52 ●

87K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 279K ◐

Denmark

Meaning & origin●

recorded in Turkish

Ay gibi parlak olan, parıltı veren.

Sources 1

  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Sunay is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#94671,19486K rec.——Sunay52
AZ Azerbaijan#4641,284101 rec.—601Sunay13
CY Cyprus—185231 rec.——Sunay6
US United States—106137 rec.1 in 3.1M106Sunay40
BE Belgium—104115 rec.—2Sunay7
IN India—579 rec.—9Sunay11
SY Syria—3537 rec.——Sunay2
KG Kyrgyzstan—330 rec.——Sunay1
GB United Kingdom—3238 rec.——Sunay13
CH Switzerland—3131 rec.—3Sunay7
SE Sweden—30△6 rec.1 in 340K30—4
PL Poland—23—1 in 1.7M23——

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Turkish72K83%
  • Hindi4.9K6%
  • Bulgarian3.1K4%
  • German1.7K2%
  • Azerbaijani1.2K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Turkish71,76583%
Hindi4,8846%
Bulgarian3,0584%
German1,7032%
Azerbaijani1,2481%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Sunay is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Bulgarian given name3.7K records spelled Sunay15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, Türkiye, Poland, Azerbaijan

    Languages: Bulgarian, Polish, Uzbek

    Also written Сунай, Sunai, Сунаи, Suñàý

  • German given name3.5K records spelled Sunay11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Türkiye, Austria

    Languages: German, English, Dutch

    Also written Sun-Ay, Suenay, Sue-Nay, Sünay, Şunay

  • Spanish given name630 records spelled Sunay3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Venezuela, India

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Suñay

  • a separate given name271 records spelled Sunay2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Türkiye

    Also written Suñay

42 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

0102030401920194019601980200033 · 1987

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Sunay in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1919–2014
Yearrecords
19191
19201
19211
19232
19243
19251
19281
19301
19313
19334
19342
19352
19362
19372
19382
19392
19403
19416
194210
19436
19444
19457
194615
194713
19486
194910
195012
19517
195211
195310
195413
19558
195615
195720
195813
195915
196014
196112
196222
196317
196413
196517
196618
196718
196826
196916
197023
197117
197217
197320
197430
197512
197621
197726
197825
197925
198024
198122
198221
198329
198428
198523
198622
198733
198818
198916
199022
199128
199218
199321
199428
199522
199611
199717
19983
19993
20081
20101
20124
20139
20143

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 81 years between 1919–2014. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

196019701980Sunay Akın, b. 1962Sunay Karamık, b. 1966Sunay Bulut, b. 1967Sunay Özgür, b. 1968Sunay Erdem, b. 1971

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●

Attested in 30 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Sunay
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AZ AzerbaijanAzerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics—601—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020106#46,195
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—57#38,265
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202039#46,195
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198733—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—30#19,223
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)197430—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198329—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199428—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199128—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198428—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)197726—

Reference works 2

  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 196 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Sunay?
We estimate roughly 193 people bear Sunay (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Sunay have the most bearers?
Sunay is most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is most often spelled sunay.
How common is Sunay compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Sunay is the 946th most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.
Is Sunay a male or female name?
Sunay 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.
What does the name Sunay mean?
Recorded meaning: Ay gibi parlak olan, parıltı veren.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Sunay” — the 946th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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