Shùn
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Shùn is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hong Kong than in any other country.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 74K
- USUnited States1 in 167K
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.
- Hong Kong (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 238 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,700 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hong Kong, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Shun in US United States, AU Australia, MY Malaysia and 4 more.
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)清 满洲 八旗 姓 , 即 顺 布 噜 氏 , TR 典 》(521)。 〔 順 ~ 嚕 】 顺 布 嚕 shunbuld
Cited for this meaning 4
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Shùn 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HK Hong Kong | #419 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Shun | 58 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Shun | 39 |
| US United States | — | 1,991 | 1 in 167K | 1.4K | Shun | 238 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 74K | 1 | Shun | 68 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 199K | 19 | Shun | 74 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 121K | — | Shun | 75 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Shun | 48 |
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; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)- Cui Shunb. 691CNTang dynasty person CBDB = 140545
- Yuan Shun Daib. 1978CNChinese computer scientist, Ph.D. National University of Singapore 2004
- Wang Shunb. 1994CNChinese swimmer
- Mei ShunMing dynasty person CBDB = 243415
- Tu Shunpolitician
- Wang ShunTang dynasty person CBDB = 134474
- Li ShunNorthern Wei person CBDB = 164060
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Shùn a male or female name?
- Shùn 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 Shùn have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.7 thousand people named Shùn in Hong Kong, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shun.
- How common is the name Shùn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,991 people named Shùn in 2020, about 1 in 167 thousand residents.
- How common is Shùn compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Shùn is the 419th most common given name of 23,276 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Shùn?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sh%C3%B9nThe 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, “Shùn” — the 419th most common given name in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.