Suni
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A small antelope of Southern Africa, Nesotragus moschatus
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈsuni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Suni 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.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 297as Sani(inferred from the name graph)
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 411as Şen
- ARArgentina1 in 2.7Kas Sena
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 Suni 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 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈720,000 named Sani, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
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 Şen in TR Türkiye.
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)
A small antelope of Southern Africa, Nesotragus moschatus.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Suni 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 | — | 3,007 | 1 in 1.9K | 26K | Sanna | 10 |
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; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the id-github-names 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Suni 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 cau-and-pro, yesterday
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Romanian, second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of suna
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, vocative/accusative/instrumental singular of suns
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, second-person singular imperative of sunuti
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ckv, sound (as of a clock), chirping (of birds)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Suni Pazb. 1935ARArgentine Singer Songwriter
- Insoonib. 1957KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer
- Jákup Suni Joensenb. 1958FODanish politician
- Suni Mat Jerahb. 1968BNassociation football player
- Niels Suni Poulsenb. 1972Faroese association football player (1972-)
- Suni úr Hørgb. 1982association football player
- Suni Ernstssonb. 1991Faroese association football player
- Suni EdsonUSAmerican forensic geneticist
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 43 sources across 25 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Suni mean, and where does it come from?
- A small antelope of Southern Africa, Nesotragus moschatus. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Suni?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈsuni/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Suni a male or female name?
- Suni 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 Suni have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 721 thousand people named Sani in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Suni most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Suni is densest in Finland — about 1 in 1.9 thousand people — even though Nigeria holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Suni?
- In Finland, the national register counted 3,007 people named Suni, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Suni compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Suni is the 27th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Suni?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/suniThe 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, “Suni” — the 27th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.