Су
loc · Cyrillic script
Meaning: water
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Су is a name written in the Cyrillic script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 1.1M(inferred from the name graph)
- CNChina≈1 in 5.8M
- SESweden1 in 33Kas Soo
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 Су itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 85 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1M (inferred from the name graph)
5,862 named Su, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Russia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Soo in US United States, NL Netherlands, Шоу in RU Russia and Su in CN China.
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)
water
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Су 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 | 5,862as Su | 1 in 57K | 17K | Soo | 17 |
| SE Sweden | 310as Soo | 1 in 33K | 310 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 278as Su | 1 in 762K | 1K | — | — |
| CN China | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 5.8M | — | Su | 12 |
| RU Russia | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Шоу | 85 |
| FI Finland | 43as Su | 1 in 130K | 222 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 34as Su | 1 in 173K | 92 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 25as Sou | 1 in 691K | 77 | Soo | 2 |
5,862 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling su. 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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017). 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)
Су is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Azerbaijani, Cyrillic spelling of su (“water”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In rsk, third-person plural indicative present of буц (buc)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, third-person plural present of би̏ти
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Macedonian, nonstandard form of сум (sum)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Uyghur, Cyrillic spelling of سۇ (su)
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)
- Hua Guofengb. 1921CNnot in their usual name2nd Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, 2nd Premier of the People's Republic of China (1921–2008)
- Ann Huib. 1947CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong film director, producer, screenwriter, and actress (born 1947)
- Hope Sub. 1947TWTaiwanese politician
- Hui Ka Yanb. 1958CNnot in their usual nameChinese entrepreneur (1958-)
- Raman Huib. 1963CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong film director
- Lisa Sub. 1969USAmerican business executive and electrical engineer
- Xu Yuhuab. 1976CNnot in their usual nameChinese chess player
- Tiffany Hsub. 1984TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese actress and model
- Su Bingtianb. 1989CNChinese sprint athlete (1989-)
- Phillipa Soob. 1990USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
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)
Attested in 5 sources across 3 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
- What does the name Су mean, and where does it come from?
- water Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Су have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.9 thousand people named Su, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Су?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,862 people named Su in 2020, about 1 in 57 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Су?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%D1%81%D1%83The 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, “Су”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.