Su
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Alternative form of xu (“former Vietnamese currency”)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/su/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Su 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 Su 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.
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)
Personal characteristic: from a variant of the adjective süß 'sweet' (or mhd. suoʒe); byname based on the trait 'sweet'. Bearer counts: 45+36.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
How Su is read(measured from records)
Su is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 4 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Turkish33%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Su in Turkish.
- English26%
Alternative form of xu (“former Vietnamese currency”).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Chinese7.6%
nonstandard spelling of sū
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Vietnamese7.2%
North Central Vietnam form of sâu (“deep”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Korean5.4%
pure, simple (pref.)
as a wordrecorded as ko-proStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Su 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)
Su is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Personal characteristic: from a variant of the adjective süß 'sweet' (or mhd. suoʒe); byname based on the trait 'sweet'. Bearer counts: 45+36.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Nigerian people: Bantu-speaking ethnic group
as a nameAfrican Names
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)
- Penn Sub. 1861USfirst Korean graduate of a US college or university
- Su Zhaozhengb. 1885CNChinese politician (1885–1929)
- Su Rogersb. 1939GBBritish architect
- Su Elliotb. 1950GBBritish actress
- Su Su Lwinb. 1952MMBurmese politician
- Su Friedrichb. 1954USAmerican filmmaker (born 1954)
- Su Turhanb. 1966TRTurkish film producer and screenwriter (born 1966)
- Su Erdtb. 1973CHSwiss production designer
- Gaye Su Akyolb. 1985TRTurkish singer, painter and anthropologist (born 1985)
- Su Burcu Yazgı Coşkunb. 2005TRTurkish actor (born 2005)
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 69 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 17K | #2,034 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 13K | #2,779 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.5K | #3,835 |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- Where does the name Su come from?
- Personal characteristic: from a variant of the adjective süß 'sweet' (or mhd. suoʒe); byname based on the trait 'sweet'. Bearer counts: 45+36. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen.
- What does the name Su mean?
- In English, Alternative form of xu (“former Vietnamese currency”).
- How do you pronounce Su?
- A machine transcription gives /su/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- Is Su a male or female name?
- Su 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 Su 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 Su?
- 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 Su compared with other names?
- In Singapore, Su is the 50th most common given name of 52,448 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Su?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/suThe 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, “Su” — the 50th most common given name in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.