Sup
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/sʌp/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sup is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- USUnited States≈1 in 1.8M(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 251K
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 455K
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 123 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 251K (inferred from the name graph)
≈240 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)' vb. a grabi" (Tiktin). 1. .upitul olt. (16 B V 179). 2. Supiald, C. (Ocina). 3. Suplea, Radu (Div 84).
Cited for this meaning 2
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sup 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 879K | — | Sup | 7 |
| US United States | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | 153 | Sup | 123 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 251K | — | Sup | 11 |
| PH Philippines | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | — | Sup | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 455K | 42 | Sup | 7 |
| CA Canada | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Sup | 19 |
| EE Estonia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 705K | listed | — | 1 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Karel Supb. 1897CZCzech graphic and painter (1897-1973)
- Michal Supb. 1973CZCzech ice hockey player
- Frank SupUSresearcher
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)Evidence
(measured from records)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 153 | #114,424 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 148 | #122,574 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 147 | #111,119 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 42 | #34,444 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Sup?
- A machine transcription gives /sʌp/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Sup a male or female name?
- Sup is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Sup have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 243 people named Sup in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sup.
- How common is the name Sup?
- Mondonomo estimates about 240 people in Nigeria have Sup as their first given name, about 1 in 879 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/supThe 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, “Sup”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.