Sp
loc · Latin script
Meaning: initialism of São Paulo: a state of Brazil
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sp is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 6.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 16K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 23K
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 Sp 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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 132 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled S.p. in MY Malaysia, SG Singapore and Sapu in BD Bangladesh.
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)
initialism of São Paulo: a state of Brazil
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sp 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Sapu | 11 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 94K | — | Sp | 8 |
| LK Sri Lanka | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Sp | 11 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | S.P. | 30 |
| FR France | ≈900 est. | ≈1 in 75K | — | Sp | 3 |
| SG Singapore | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | S.P. | 21 |
| SE Sweden | 2as Sapu | 1 in 5.1M | 2 | — | 4 |
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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Sp 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 German, initialism of Sozialdemokratische Partei der Schweiz (“Social Democratic Party of Switzerland”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, initialism of syntagme prépositionnel (“prepositional phrase; PP”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, abbreviation of serikat pekerja (“labor union; trade union”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, initialism of Socialistische Partij; the Socialist Party, a left-wing democratic socialist party in the Netherlands
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Turkish, initialism of Saadet Partisi (Felicity Party).
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sp mean, and where does it come from?
- initialism of São Paulo: a state of Brazil Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Sp have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Sp in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sapu.
- How common is the name Sp?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 2 people named Sapu, about 1 in 5.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Sp?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/spThe 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, “Sp”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.