Gorkem
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Gorkem has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 2001. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2001, with 5 recorded.
Babies named Gorkem, 2001
1 in 748,000
Gorkem over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Gorkem?
Gorkem had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2001, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2001
- 1 in 748,000
- 5 of 3,742,181 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 388,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2001
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 518,778 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Gorkem sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2001 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 518,778 children born in 2001 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gorkem. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Gorkems were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Gorkem was born before 2001 — so the typical Gorkem is around 24 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 5
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).
Is Gorkem rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2001 (5)
- Years since peak
- 24
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Gorkem
Gorkem is not the most common spelling — Gorge is, with 56.0% against Gorkem's 0.11%.
Gorkem around the world
Where Gorkem ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2001–2004#3,651in 2004
- France1999–2014#4,899in 2014
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Gorkem by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Gorkem
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Gorkem
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.