Sử

given name · Latin script

Meaning: history

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country

Sử is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

  • USUnited States1 in 57K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 130K
  • DKDenmark1 in 173K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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)

5,862 people, 2020

Record sources
86 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 57K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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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)

history

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Sử 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.

Where Sử is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States5,8621 in 57K17KSu86
BR Brazil2781 in 762K298—1
FI Finland431 in 130K222—5
ES Spain391 in 1.3M793Su8
DK Denmark341 in 173K92—1
PL Poland331 in 1.2M83—1

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); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Sử is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name9 spellings in the group

    Also written Su, Sự, Sư, Sứ, Sú

  • a separate name15 spellings in the group

    Also written Șu, Sủ, Sü, S-U, Sự

  • Urdu given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Türkiye, India, Pakistan

    Also written Su, Sü, Şu

9 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
500100015002000Shi Siming, b. 703Shi Miyuan, b. 1164Shi Liang, b. 1900Shi Dongshan, b. 1902Bai Guang, b. 1921Shi Jiuyong, b. 1926Shi Jinbo, b. 1940Soe Hok Gie, b. 1942Laura Cha, b. 1949Vienna Teng, b. 1978
  • Shi Simingb. 703not in their usual nameEmperor of the Yan state
  • Shi Miyuanb. 1164not in their usual nameChinese politician, and Grand Chancellor of the Song Dynasty (1164–1233)
  • Shi Liangb. 1900CNnot in their usual nameChinese politician (1900-1985)
  • Shi Dongshanb. 1902TWnot in their usual nameChinese film director and screenwriter (1902-1955)
  • Bai Guangb. 1921CNnot in their usual nameChinese actor and singer (1921-1999)
  • Shi Jiuyongb. 1926CNnot in their usual nameChinese judge (1926–2022)
  • Shi Jinbob. 1940CNnot in their usual nameLinguist and Tangutologist
  • Soe Hok Gieb. 1942IDnot in their usual nameIndonesian activist (1942–1969)
  • Laura Chab. 1949CNnot in their usual nameChinese businesswoman and politician
  • Vienna Tengb. 1978USnot in their usual nameTaiwanese-American pianist and singer-songwriter based in Detroit

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)

3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.

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 Sử mean, and where does it come from?
history Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Sử a male or female name?
Sử is a male 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 Sử have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 5.9 thousand people named Sử, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled su.
Where is Sử most common?
Sử is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 57 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Sử?
In the United States, the national register counted 5,862 people named Sử in 2020, about 1 in 57 thousand residents.

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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, “Sử”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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