Shuo
given name · Latin script
Used for both men and women· registers list it under both sexes; no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Shuo is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: First day of the new moon; beginning; north.
- CNChina≈1 in 2.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- TWTaiwan≈1 in 8.8Kfew records
- SGSingapore≈1 in 73Kfew records
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 187 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈650,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
China, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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)First day of the new moon; beginning; north
Cited for this meaning 1
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Shuo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈650,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Shuo | 102 |
| TW Taiwan | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 8.8K | — | Shuo | 65 |
| US United States | 1,120 | 1 in 297K | 727 | Shuo | 187 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 103K | — | Shuo | 10 |
| JP Japan | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 385K | — | Shuo | 21 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Shuo | 20 |
| SG Singapore | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 73K | — | Shuo | 36 |
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. 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)- Zhang Yueb. 663not in their usual nameChinese chancellor
- Guo Shoujingb. 1231CNnot in their usual nameChinese astronomer and mathematician (1231–1316)
- Fang Shuob. 1990CNChinese basketball player (born 1990)
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Shuo mean, and where does it come from?
- First day of the new moon; beginning; north Recorded by Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007).
- Is Shuo a male or female name?
- Shuo is used for both men and women. National registers that list it by sex count it under both: United States (Census Bureau, 2020). We don't publish a percentage split.
- Which countries have the most people named Shuo?
- Mondonomo estimates about 650 thousand people named Shuo in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shuo. After it come Taiwan, United States, Malaysia and Japan; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Shuo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,120 people named Shuo in 2020, about 1 in 297 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Shuo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shuoThe 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, “Shuo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.