Sook

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Alternative spelling of suck

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

/suk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Sook is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 1.8K(inferred from the name graph)
  • NLNetherlands≈1 in 11K
  • USUnited States1 in 194K

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.

Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)

≈18,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
187 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Malaysia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SookLatin(measured from records)
소옥Hangul(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

Alternative spelling of suck.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sook 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 Sook is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MY Malaysia#607≈18,000 est.≈1 in 1.8K—Sook75
PK Pakistan—≈11,000 est.≈1 in 20K—Sook3
CN China—≈9,600 est.≈1 in 145K—Sook13
AO Angola#455≈2,800 est.≈1 in 11K—Sook1
US United States—1,7111 in 194K1.7KSook187
NL Netherlands#889≈1,600 est.≈1 in 11K—Sook9
SG Singapore#989≈460 est.≈1 in 14K—Sook61

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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Sook is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, United States, Pakistan, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Soôk

  • French given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Malaysia, Canada

    Also written Soôk, Şook

52 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Sook is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Khmer, I p. to insert (something into a narrow space^especially between two objects). 2 . p.to nonplus, to cause to be at a loss as to what to say. (see; 2 .) WnUSrinnfeCIH1& to fit a tongue and groove joint together. to enter a living body (referring to a spirit taking over a medium’s body for communication with the living)

    as a wordHeadley, Cambodian-English Dictionary, Volume II (ម-អ)

  • In yur, thing, object

    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)

16001700180019002000Prince NakSon, b. 1641Moon Sook, b. 1954Moon Signal, b. 1965Yoon-Sook Choi, b. 1967

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)

InformalHi Sook,

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 21 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Sook
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.7K#8,475
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202023#8,475
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)19636—

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Sook mean, and where does it come from?
Alternative spelling of suck. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Sook?
A machine transcription gives /suk/ (IPA) for English.
Is Sook a male or female name?
Sook 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.
What are other forms of the name Sook?
In the etymology graph, Sookie is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Sook have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Sook in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sook.
How common is the name Sook?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,711 people named Sook in 2020, about 1 in 194 thousand residents.
How common is Sook compared with other names?
In Malaysia, Sook is the 607th most common given name of 388,685 given names recorded there.

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The 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, “Sook” — the 607th most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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