Su-O

given name · Latin script

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

Su-O is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: ‘To draw back, shrink’.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 32K(measured from records)
  • CNChina≈1 in 35K
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 234K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈40,000 people, est.

Sources
89 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Suo in CN China, US United States, TW Taiwan and 2 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)

‘To draw back, shrink’

Sources 1

  • Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Su-O 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-O is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China≈40,000 est.≈1 in 35K—Suo66
US United States2221 in 1.5M322Suo89
FI Finland1741 in 32K174—1
MY Malaysia≈96 est.≈1 in 340K—Suo12
TW Taiwan≈50 est.≈1 in 477K—Suo12
SG Singapore≈21 est.≈1 in 301K—Suo11
EE Estonia≈5 est.≈1 in 234Klisted—3

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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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-O is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Korean given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Korea, United States, China, Malaysia

    Also written 수오, Zuo, Suo, Suoh

2 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Su-O under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Su-O mean, and where does it come from?
‘To draw back, shrink’ Recorded by Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007).
Is Su-O a male or female name?
Su-O is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Su-O have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 40 thousand people named Su-O in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled suo.
Where is Su-O most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Su-O is densest in Finland — about 1 in 32 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Su-O?
In the United States, the national register counted 222 people named Su-O in 2010, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/su-o

The 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-O”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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