Sůva
surname · Latin script
Meaning: alternative form of sova (owl; annoying person)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
/suːva/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sůva is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Czechia.
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)alternative form of sova (owl; annoying person)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sůva counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | — | 358 | — |
| US United States | — | 193 | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 109 | — |
| IN India | — | 29 | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 11 | — |
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: MVČR — living population register 2017; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Bohuslav Sůvab. 1873official of Sokol gymnastic association in Prague (1873-1939)
- Stanislav Sůvab. 1912CZCzech architect (1912-1987)
- Rudolf Suvab. 1924CZCzech motorcycle racer
- Jaroslav Sůvab. 1930CZCzech politician (1930–2018)
- Josef Sůvab. 1934CZCzech gallery owner and art historian (1934–2023)
- Václav Sůvab. 1949CZCzech athlete
- Lubomír Sůvab. 1977CZCzech dramaturg, literary scholar, folklorist (b. 1977)
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)Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 358 | #4,503 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 358 | #3,871 |
Reference works 2
- 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 Sůva mean, and where does it come from?
- alternative form of sova (owl; annoying person) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sůva?
- A machine transcription gives /suːva/ (IPA) for Czech.
- In which country does Sůva have the most bearers?
- Sůva is most frequently recorded in Czechia.
What do you want to know about Sůva?
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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%C5%AFvaThe 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, “Sůva”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.