Suo
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/suoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Suo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: ‘To draw back, shrink’.
- FIFinland1 in 32K(measured from records)
- CNChina≈1 in 35K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 234K
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)
- Sources
- 89 (measured from records)
- 1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
≈40,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘To draw back, shrink’
Sources 1
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Suo 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 | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Suo | 66 |
| US United States | 222 | 1 in 1.5M | 322 | Suo | 89 |
| FI Finland | 174 | 1 in 32K | 174 | — | 1 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈96 est. | ≈1 in 340K | — | Suo | 12 |
| TW Taiwan | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 477K | — | Suo | 12 |
| SG Singapore | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 301K | — | Suo | 11 |
| EE Estonia | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 234K | listed | — | 3 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); the ee-siseministeerium-registry 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)
- Suo Yuanlib. 650secret police official
- Soninb. 1601CNnot in their usual nameChinese regent (1601-1667)
- Masayuki Suob. 1956JPJapanese film director
- Lauri Tähkäb. 1973FInot in their usual nameFinnish singer and songwriter
- Suo Tsukasab. 1981JPJapanese novelist (1981-)
- Bin Suob. 1981Chinese ice dancer
- Yukiko Suohb. 1988JPnot in their usual nameJapanese AV idol
- Suo Dib. 1993CNChinese badminton player
- Suo Changperson, CBDB ID = 418393
- Suo JianMing dynasty person CBDB = 275109
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)
Attested in 16 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Suo mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘To draw back, shrink’ Recorded by Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007).
- How do you pronounce Suo?
- A machine transcription gives /suoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Suo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 40 thousand people named Suo in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled suo.
- Where is Suo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Suo is densest in Finland — about 1 in 32 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Suo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 222 people named Suo in 2010, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/suoThe 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, “Suo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.