Șū
given name · Latin script
Șū is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Latin suum, from Proto-Italic *sowos, from Proto-Indo-European *sewos, from *swé.
- USUnited States1 in 57K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 130K
- DKDenmark1 in 173K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 26 (measured from records)
- 1 in 57K (inferred from the name graph)
5,862 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Su in US United States, ES Spain.
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(measured from records)
- Latinsuum(measured from records)
- Proto-Italic*sowos(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*sewos(measured from records)
Inherited from Latin suum, from Proto-Italic *sowos, from Proto-Indo-European *sewos, from *swé.
Sources 5
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Șū 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.
5,862 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Șū mean, and where does it come from?
- Inherited from Latin suum, from Proto-Italic *sowos, from Proto-Indo-European *sewos, from *swé. Recorded by Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and 3 other sources.
- Is Șū a male or female name?
- Șū 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 Șū have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.9 thousand people named Șū, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled su.
- Where is Șū most common?
- Șū is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 57 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Șū?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,862 people named Șū in 2020, about 1 in 57 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C8%99%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, “Șū”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.