Sit
surname · Latin script
Meaning: To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/sɪt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sit is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 113K(measured from records)
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 1.6K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 28K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 35 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
11,763 people
Highest-authority source
Hong Kong, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sit 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.
11,763 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
Sit 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 kr, wait. 2) to be introduced, to begin, to arise: yimiema sida ndb
as a wordKanuri-English Vocabulary (in African Native Literature)
In tut-pro, bands tied to sacrifices
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In sit-pro, seed, egg
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Danish, third-person sg pronoun, meaning his/her/its (own)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Afrikaans, to sit; to be in a sitting position (usually used with op, binne or in)
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)
- Xue Renguib. 614not in their usual nameTang Dynasty general
- Xue Yueb. 1896CNnot in their usual nameNational Revolutionary Army General (1896–1998)
- Nancy Sitb. 1950GBHong Kong actress, singer, and programme host
- Xue Xiaolub. 1970CNnot in their usual nameChinese film director and screenwriter
- Shaolan Hsuehb. 1971TWnot in their usual nameentrepreneur, investor and Chinese teacher
- Xue Haifengb. 1980CNnot in their usual nameChinese archer
- Fiona Sitb. 1981CNHong Kong singer and actress
- Joker Xueb. 1983CNnot in their usual nameChinese singer-songwriter
- Bai Xueb. 1988CNnot in their usual nameChinese long distance runner
- Xue Chenb. 1989CNnot in their usual nameChinese beach volleyball 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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 12K | #890 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 878 | #28,830 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 859 | #27,918 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 704 | #31,167 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 239 | #1,899 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Sit mean, and where does it come from?
- To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sit?
- A machine transcription gives /sɪt/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Sit have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Sit, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sit.
- How common is the name Sit?
- In India, the national register counted 11,763 people named Sit, about 1 in 113 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sitThe 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, “Sit”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.