Entry № 3871 · Other origin

Gunay Gunay — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ GOO-nai /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Sun-moon"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Azerbaijani)

A name that means "sun-moon".

Gunay is from the Azerbaijani Günay (Gunay — gün sun + ay moon) — sun-moon, day-and-night radiance. Gunay is one of the Azerbaijani + Turkish feminine names — central to traditional Azerbaijani-Turkic dual-celestial naming heritage.

Sun-moon.

The name in its native script.

Günay
Transliteration
Günay
Pronunciation
/ ˈɡuː.naɪ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Gunay stands.

Gunay does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Gunays before her.

Real people

In fiction
Gunay
Azerbaijani sun-moon.

Names connected to Gunay.

The number behind Gunay.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Gunay reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.