Swee
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A finch of species Coccopygia melanotis, found in sub-Saharan Africa
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/swəə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Swee is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 993(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 3.2K
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M
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.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 116 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 993 (inferred from the name graph)
≈33,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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 finch of species Coccopygia melanotis, found in sub-Saharan Africa.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Swee 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | #112 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 993 | — | Swee | 101 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Swee | 22 |
| CN China | — | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 253K | — | Swee | 22 |
| SG Singapore | #369 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Swee | 115 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 51K | 1 | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | 260 | 1 in 1.3M | 297 | Swee | 116 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Swee | 5 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)
Swee is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In sco, to sway
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)
- Bernice Pfitznerb. 1938AUnot in their usual nameAustralian politician
- Swee Tanb. 1960NZNew Zealand plastic surgeon
- Teh Swee Leongb. 1989MYMalaysian politician
- Swee Yeapb. 2000researcher
- Swee Leong SingSGresearcher
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 15 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 188 | #32,402 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 72 | #32,402 |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1975 | 1 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Swee mean, and where does it come from?
- A finch of species Coccopygia melanotis, found in sub-Saharan Africa. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Swee?
- A machine transcription gives /swəə/ (IPA) for Malay.
- Is Swee a male or female name?
- Swee 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 Swee have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 33 thousand people named Swee in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled swee.
- How common is the name Swee?
- In the United States, the national register counted 260 people named Swee in 2020, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
- How common is Swee compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Swee is the 112th most common given name of 388,685 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Swee?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sweeThe 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, “Swee” — the 112th most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.