Ŝo
surname · Latin script
Ŝo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Singapore it is the 50th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Middle English so, swo, zuo, swa, swe, from Old English swā, swǣ, swē (“so, as, the same, such, that”), from Proto-West Germanic *swā, from Proto-Germanic *swa, *swē (“so”), from Proto-Indo-Europ.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 660as Sue(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 830as Sue
- TWTaiwan≈1 in 830as Su
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 Ŝo 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- #381 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 575 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 660 (inferred from the name graph)
99,611 named Sue, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Australia, est., as Sue
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sue in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 4 more and Su in TW Taiwan.
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)- Middle Englishso(measured from records)
- Old Englishswā“so“so, as, the same, such, that”(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*swā(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*swa“so”(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*swēreflexive pronomial stem(measured from records)
From Middle English so, swo, zuo, swa, swe, from Old English swā, swǣ, swē (“so, as, the same, such, that”), from Proto-West Germanic *swā, from Proto-Germanic *swa, *swē (“so”), from Proto-Indo-European *swē, *swō (reflexive pronomial stem). Cognate with Scots sae (“so”), West Frisian sa (“so”), Low German so (“so”), Dutch zo (“so”), German so (“so”), Danish så (“so”), Norwegian Nynorsk so, Swedish så ("so, such that"), Old Latin suad (“so”), Albanian sa (“how much, so, as”), Ancient Greek ὡς (hōs, “as”), Urdu سو (sō, “hence”).
Cited for this meaning 7
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- A Frequency Dictionary of German
- Wiktionary
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ŝo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #166 | 99,611as Sue | 1 in 3.3K | 99K | Sue | 575 |
| GB United Kingdom | #179 | ≈66,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 733 | Sue | 307 |
| AU Australia | #103 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 660 | 83 | Sue | 258 |
| VN Vietnam | — | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | listed | Sue | 53 |
| CA Canada | #158 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 1 | Sue | 246 |
| TW Taiwan | — | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 832 | — | Su | 182 |
| NZ New Zealand | #100 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 830 | 14 | Sue | 154 |
| SG Singapore | #50 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Sue | 110 |
99,611 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–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)Ŝo 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 Esperanto, The name of the Latin-script letter Ŝ/ŝ.
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ŝo mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English so, swo, zuo, swa, swe, from Old English swā, swǣ, swē (“so, as, the same, such, that”), from Proto-West Germanic *swā, from Proto-Germanic *swa, *swē (“so”), from Proto-Indo-Europ… Recorded by 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and 5 other sources.
- In which country does Ŝo have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 100 thousand people named Sue, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Ŝo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 99,611 people named Sue in 2020, about 1 in 3.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Ŝo compared with other names?
- In the United States, Ŝo is the 166th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%9DoThe 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, “Ŝo” — the 166th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.