Sudi
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Sudi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. In Swahili, recorded as luck, fortune.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 41Kas Sood(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 41Kas Sood
- CACanada≈1 in 52Kas Sood
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 Sudi 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.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 289 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 122K (inferred from the name graph)
18,816 named Sood
Highest-authority source
Hungary, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Sood in IN India, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 6 more and Südi in HU Hungary.
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)
luck, fortune
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Sudi is read(measured from records)
Sudi is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.
- Swahili27%
luck, fortune
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Swahili: 'success' or 'luck'.
as a nameAfrican Names
- Indonesian19%
will, deign
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Hindi18%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sudi in Hindi.
- Turkish14%
Yararlı, faydalı, kazançlı.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- English10%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sudi in English.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Sudi 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 18,816as Sood | 1 in 70K | 19K | Sood | 199 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 94K | listed | Sood | 27 |
| US United States | 1,846as Sood | 1 in 180K | 2.8K | Sood | 289 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 81K | 1.2K | Sood | 112 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Sood | 22 |
| CA Canada | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Sood | 96 |
| AU Australia | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 41K | 1 | Sood | 112 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Sood | 52 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Sood | 19 |
| HU Hungary | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 122K | — | Südi | 20 |
| NO Norway | 42 | 1 in 130K | 42 | — | 7 |
18,816 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Sudi 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.
good luck
as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
Luck.
as a nameThe African book of 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)
- Süleyman Sudi Acarbayb. 1866TRTurkish statesperson (1866–1928)
- Sudi Mıhçıoğlub. 1903TRTurkish statesperson (1903–1981)
- Sudi Türelb. 1929TRTurkish statesperson (1929–2009)
- Sudi Silalahib. 1949IDIndonesian politician
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 36 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 677 | #1,227 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 213 | #17,013 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 42 | #28,856 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 36 | #62,359 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Sudi mean, and where does it come from?
- luck, fortune Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Sudi a male or female name?
- Sudi 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 Sudi have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 19 thousand people named Sood, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Sudi?
- In Norway, the national register counted 42 people named Sudi, about 1 in 130 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sudi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sudiThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Sudi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.