Sunja
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Sunja is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country. Sunja is also written 순자 in Korean (Hangul).
- DEGermany≈1 in 1.6Mfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 7.7M
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 1.4Kas 순자
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 Sunja 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.
- South Korea (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 130 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 190K (inferred from the name graph)
≈36,000 named 순자, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Lesotho, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Sunja in other scripts: Korean (Hangul) and Latin
(measured from records)Locally spelled Sunya in US United States, IN India, PK Pakistan and 순자 in KR South Korea.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sunja 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KR South Korea | #229 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | 순자 | 35 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 197K | listed | Sunya | 9 |
| IN India | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | 2 | Sunya | 6 |
| US United States | — | 534as Soonja | 1 in 623K | 530 | Sunya | 130 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | 1 | Sunja | 25 |
| LS Lesotho | #501 | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 190K | — | Sunja | 1 |
| PL Poland | — | 5 | 1 in 7.7M | 5 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | — | 2as Sunya | 1 in 375K | 2 | — | 1 |
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; the de-leipzig-vornamen register; naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)Sunja 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 got, romanization of 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌾𐌰
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, " Sunya, sunia, pénétration d'esprit, sagacité. Sunya handikoa da, il a une grande sagacité. Egiteko hortan sunyarekin ibili behar da, en cette affaire il faut aller avec pénétration et sagacité" H (s.v. zundatzea ) . "En parlant des animaux, sagacité, flair" H .
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)- Lee Soon-jab. 1939KRnot in their usual namewife of Chun Doo-hwan
- Soon Ja Dub. 1941KRnot in their usual namemurderer
- Park Soon-jab. 1966KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean field hockey player
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)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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Sunja a male or female name?
- Sunja is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- Which countries have the most people named Sunja?
- Mondonomo estimates about 36 thousand people named 순자 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Pakistan, India, United States and Germany; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Sunja?
- In Poland, the national register counted 5 people named Sunja in 2026, about 1 in 7.7 million residents.
- How common is Sunja compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Sunja is the 229th most common given name of 67,037 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sunja?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sunjaThe 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, “Sunja” — the 229th most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.