Sú
given name · Latin script
Meaning: black mangrove (Aegiceras corniculatum)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Sú is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Singapore it is the 50th most common given name.
- TWTaiwan≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 1.3K
- VNVietnam≈1 in 2.4K
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 Sú 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #381 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 575 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100,000 named Sue, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Taiwan, est.
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 5 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)
black mangrove (Aegiceras corniculatum)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sú 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈1,100,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Sue | 169 |
| US United States | #166 | 99,611as Sue | 1 in 3.3K | 99K | Sue | 575 |
| GB United Kingdom | #179 | ≈59,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 733 | Sue | 307 |
| VN Vietnam | — | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | listed | Sue | 53 |
| AU Australia | #103 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 684 | 83 | Sue | 258 |
| MY Malaysia | #103 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Sue | 106 |
| TW Taiwan | — | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Su | 182 |
| NZ New Zealand | #100 | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 914 | 14 | Sue | 154 |
| SG Singapore | #50 | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Sue | 110 |
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); 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)
Sú 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 Lao, 1, v. sweep, make clean. 2. v. wash, rub clean. = deu v. rub with soap. 2 . a adj. overripe. 3 4 (Thai) adj. spongy, porous. 4 L| (Pali) prefix: good, beautiful, easy
as a wordLao-English Dictionary
In jpx-pro, shallow place, sandbank
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In jpx-pro, bamboo sieve, mat
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Faroese, that, that one, she (referring to something or someone which is about to be specified further or has just been mentioned)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In non, accusative/dative singular indefinite of sýr
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)
- Shi Simingb. 703not in their usual nameEmperor of the Yan state
- Shi Miyuanb. 1164not in their usual nameChinese politician, and Grand Chancellor of the Song Dynasty (1164–1233)
- Shi Liangb. 1900CNnot in their usual nameChinese politician (1900-1985)
- Shi Dongshanb. 1902TWnot in their usual nameChinese film director and screenwriter (1902-1955)
- Bai Guangb. 1921CNnot in their usual nameChinese actor and singer (1921-1999)
- Shi Jiuyongb. 1926CNnot in their usual nameChinese judge (1926–2022)
- Shi Jinbob. 1940CNnot in their usual nameLinguist and Tangutologist
- Soe Hok Gieb. 1942IDnot in their usual nameIndonesian activist (1942–1969)
- Laura Chab. 1949CNnot in their usual nameChinese businesswoman and politician
- Vienna Tengb. 1978USnot in their usual nameTaiwanese-American pianist and singer-songwriter based in Detroit
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
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sú mean, and where does it come from?
- black mangrove (Aegiceras corniculatum) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Sú a male or female name?
- Sú 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.
- In which country does Sú have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 million people named Sue in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Sú?
- 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 Sú compared with other names?
- In Singapore, Sú is the 50th most common given name of 52,448 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sú?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%BAThe 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, “Sú” — the 50th most common given name in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.