Suk-Ja
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Suk-Ja is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country. Suk-Ja is also written 숙자 in Korean (Hangul).
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 2.2Kas 숙자(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.3Mas Sookja
- PLPoland1 in 19Mas Sook Ja
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 Suk-Ja itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. 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
- 32 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈24,000 named 숙자, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
South Korea, est., as 숙자
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Suk-Ja in other scripts: Korean (Hangul) and Latin
(measured from records)Locally spelled Sookja in US United States, CA Canada and 숙자 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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Suk-Ja 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 | #594 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | 숙자 | 32 |
| US United States | — | 253as Sookja | 1 in 1.3M | 253 | Sookja | 19 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 26M | — | Sookja | 2 |
| PL Poland | — | 2as Sook Ja | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | — | — | — | 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names). 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)- Hong Sook-jab. 1933KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean diplomat, professor, feminist, and politician
- Shin Suk-jab. 1942KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean prisoner of North Korea
- Lee Sook-jab. 1980KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Suk-Ja a male or female name?
- Suk-Ja 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Suk-Ja?
- Mondonomo estimates about 24 thousand people named 숙자 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Canada and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Suk-Ja?
- In the United States, the national register counted 253 people named Sookja in 2020, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
- How common is Suk-Ja compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Suk-Ja is the 594th most common given name of 67,037 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/suk-jaThe 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, “Suk-Ja” — the 594th most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.