Suna
given name · Latin script
Meaning: drake
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sunɑ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Suna is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. In Türkiye it is the 27th most common surname.
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 3.2M(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 297as Sani
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 411as Şen
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 Suna 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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- #345 (measured from records)
- 12 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 459 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.2M (inferred from the name graph)
≈720,000 named Sani, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
South Korea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
20 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sana in PK Pakistan, MA Morocco, Sani in NG Nigeria, ID Indonesia, Soni in IN India and 선아 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(measured from records)
drake
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Suna 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈720,000 est. | ≈1 in 297 | listed | Sani | 63 |
| IN India | #78 | 218,303as Sen | 1 in 6.1K | 218K | Soni | 293 |
| TR Türkiye | #27 | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 411 | #94 | Şen | 125 |
| PK Pakistan | #597 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 7K | listed | Sana | 133 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | listed | Sani | 151 |
| AR Argentina | — | 16,831as Sena | 1 in 2.7K | 17K | Jona | 39 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | listed | Sana | 96 |
| FI Finland | — | 3,007as Suni | 1 in 1.9K | 26K | Sanna | 10 |
| KR South Korea | — | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 3.2M | 1M | 선아 | 156 |
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; KOSIS — 2015 census surnames; the tr-tuik-child-stats register; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)
Suna 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 Turkish, 1. Bir tür yaban ördeği, erkek ördek. 2. Boylu, güzel, yakışıklı.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Indra (५)
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Fame.
as a nameThe African book of names
In lua, to bring or carry or fetch or draw water from a spring or stream.
as a wordGrammar and Dictionary of the Buluba-Lulua Language
In tuw-pro, dog rope
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
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)
- Suna Pekuysalb. 1933TRTurkish actor (born 1933)
- Suna Tanaltayb. 1933TRTurkish psychologist and writer (1933–2021)
- Suna Kanb. 1936TRTurkish violinist (1936–2023)
- Suna Koradb. 1936TRTurkish opera singer (1936–2003)
- Suna Selenb. 1939TRTurkish actor (born 1939)
- Suna Keskinb. 1940TRTurkish actor (born 1940)
- Suna Kıraçb. 1941TRTurkish-American businessperson (1941–2020)
- Suna Rochab. 1948ARArgentinian composer
- Suna Yıldızoğlub. 1955TRTurkish actor (born 1955)
- Suna Murrayb. 1955USfigure skater
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)
Attested in 66 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 16K | #736 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 829 | #278 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 166 | #8,616 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 75 | #3,657 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 45 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 35 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #11,299 |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2015 | 3 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2016 | 2 | #6,324 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1989 | 2 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2016 | 1 | — |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK — Statistics on Child (baby names) | 1980 | — | #94 |
Reference works 7
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- How do you pronounce Suna?
- A machine transcription gives /sunɑ/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Suna mean, and where does it come from?
- drake Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Suna a male or female name?
- Suna is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Suna have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 721 thousand people named Sani in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Suna?
- In India, the national register counted 218,303 people named Sen, about 1 in 6.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Suna compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Suna is the 27th most common surname of 619,652 surnames 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/sunaThe 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, “Suna” — the 27th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.