Su-Mi

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Su-Mi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • KRSouth Korea≈1 in 1.7Kas 수미(inferred from the name graph)
  • SESweden1 in 319K
  • USUnited States1 in 357K

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-Mi 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.

South Korea (inferred from the name graph)

≈31,000 named 수미, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
61 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 319K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

Su-MiLatin(measured from records)
수미Hangul(measured from records)

Locally spelled 수미 in KR South Korea, MO Macao and Sumi in US United States.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Su-Mi 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.

Where Su-Mi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
KR South Korea#342≈31,000 est.≈1 in 1.7K—수미61
US United States—9311 in 357K912Sumi61
BR Brazil—280as Suemi1 in 756K318——
MO Macao#279≈61 est.≈1 in 10K—수미1
SE Sweden—321 in 319K32—1
DK Denmark—131 in 451K13——

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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Su-Mi is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Bangla given name53 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Bangladesh, Brazil

    Languages: Bangla, English, Spanish

    Also written Sumi, Suemi, Sim, Samu, Sumy

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Šumi, Sǔmi, Sumi, Sūmī, Sumī

17 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1940196019802000Kim Su-mi, b. 1949Oh Soo-mi, b. 1949Sumi Jo, b. 1962Eun Soo-mi, b. 1963Sumi Hwang, b. 1986Su-Mi Choi, b. 2000
  • Kim Su-mib. 1949KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress (1949–2024)
  • Oh Soo-mib. 1949KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
  • Sumi Job. 1962KRSouth Korean operatic soprano
  • Eun Soo-mib. 1963KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean sociologist and politician
  • Sumi Hwangb. 1986KRSouth Korean singer
  • Su-Mi Choib. 2000not in their usual nameresearcher

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)

Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens

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

Is Su-Mi a male or female name?
Su-Mi 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-Mi have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 31 thousand people named 수미 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Su-Mi most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Su-Mi is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 319 thousand people — even though South Korea holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Su-Mi?
In the United States, the national register counted 931 people named Su-Mi in 2020, about 1 in 357 thousand residents.
How common is Su-Mi compared with other names?
In South Korea, Su-Mi is the 342nd most common given name of 67,037 given names recorded there.

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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-Mi” — the 342nd most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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