Surina
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sɝinə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Surina is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 699K(measured from records)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 46K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 100K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 146 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 46K (inferred from the name graph)
≈720 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Surina 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Surina | 20 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Surina | 17 |
| US United States | 476 | 1 in 699K | 472 | Surina | 146 |
| PH Philippines | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 580K | — | Surina | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | 7 | Surina | 52 |
| SG Singapore | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 350K | — | Surina | 11 |
| GY Guyana | 5 | 1 in 150K | 5 | — | 3 |
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); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Surina is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Finnish, Hum (indistinct sound, like that produced by the bees).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, third-person singular past historic of suriner
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Daniela Surinab. 1942ITItalian actress
- Irina Surinab. 1966RURussian musician
- Giorgia Surinab. 1975ITItalian television personality
- Boštjan SurinaSIresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-2635-315X
- Ivo SurinaSIresearcher
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)
Attested in 40 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 472 | #21,351 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2013 | 28 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2011 | 23 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2010 | 23 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 22 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 22 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2014 | 20 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2012 | 19 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2008 | 18 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2004 | 13 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Surina?
- A machine transcription gives /sɝinə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Surina a male or female name?
- Surina 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 Surina have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 717 people named Surina in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled surina.
- How common is the name Surina?
- In the United States, the national register counted 476 people named Surina in 2020, about 1 in 699 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Surina?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/surinaThe 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, “Surina”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.