Sueur
surname · Latin script
Meaning: sweat, perspiration
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/sɥœʁ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sueur is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 17K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 133K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 140K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 233 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
sweat, perspiration
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sueur 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 586 | Sueur | 233 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 140K | — | Sueur | 14 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈87 est. | ≈1 in 760K | — | Sueur | 44 |
| US United States | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 4.1M | listed | Sueur | 68 |
| CH Switzerland | 63 | 1 in 133K | 63 | Sueur | 9 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 200K | — | Sueur | 10 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; 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)
- Louis-François Sueurb. 1841FRroman-catholic archbishop (1841-1914)
- Marthe Sueurb. 1939FRFrench politician
- Philippe Sueurb. 1946FRFrench politician and legal historian
- Jean-Pierre Sueurb. 1947FRFrench politician
- Thierry Sueurb. 1947FRVice-President, European and International Affairs - Air Liquide SA
- François Sueurb. 1953FRFrench ornithologist and editor
- José Sueurb. 1954FRFrench politician and physician
- Alain Sueurb. 1955FRFrench economist and writer
- Catherine Sueurb. 1975FRFrench official
- Jérôme SueurFRentomologist
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)
Attested in 11 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 703 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 695 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 633 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 591 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 586 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 521 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 472 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 454 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 307 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 304 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 214 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 63 | #15,671 |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Sueur mean, and where does it come from?
- sweat, perspiration Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sueur?
- A machine transcription gives /sɥœʁ/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Sueur have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.0 thousand people named Sueur in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sueur.
- How common is the name Sueur?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 63 people named Sueur in 2024, about 1 in 133 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sueurThe 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, “Sueur”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.