Sū
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sū is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Singapore it is the 50th most common given name.
- TWTaiwan≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 1.3K
- VNVietnam≈1 in 2.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sū itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- #381 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 575 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
99,611 named Sue, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Taiwan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sue in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 5 more and Su in TW Taiwan.
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.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sū 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #166 | 99,611as Sue | 1 in 3.3K | 99K | Sue | 575 |
| GB United Kingdom | #179 | ≈59,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 733 | Sue | 307 |
| VN Vietnam | — | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | listed | Sue | 53 |
| AU Australia | #103 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 684 | 83 | Sue | 258 |
| CA Canada | #158 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 1 | Sue | 246 |
| MY Malaysia | #103 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Sue | 106 |
| TW Taiwan | — | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Su | 182 |
| NZ New Zealand | #100 | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 914 | 14 | Sue | 154 |
| SG Singapore | #50 | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Sue | 110 |
99,611 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). 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)Sū is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In tut-pro, well, very, extremely
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In llu, set, of sun, moon and stars; dive, swim under water
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Samoan, be moist; (of taro) be watery
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 囌 /苏
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of すう
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In rtm, juice of a ripe coconut
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)- Wang Sub. 1763Qing dynasty person CBDB = 71070
- Su Sub. 1982CNChinese Go player
- Yelü SuLiao dynasty person CBDB = 43470
- Xiang SuMing dynasty person CBDB = 219397
- Zhao SuMing dynasty person CBDB = 325466
- Zhang SuMing dynasty person CBDB = 330848
- Gan SuMing dynasty person CBDB = 309797
- Bao Superson, CBDB = 134927
- Li SuQing dynasty person CBDB = 358651
- Xie SuSong dynasty person CBDB=137899
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
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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
- Is Sū a male or female name?
- Sū 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 Sū have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 100 thousand people named Sue, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Sū?
- In the United States, the national register counted 99,611 people named Sue in 2020, about 1 in 3.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Sū compared with other names?
- In the United States, Sū is the 166th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sū?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C5%ABThe 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, “Sū” — the 166th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.