Suhay
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/suheɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Suhay is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.3M(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 436K
- IEIreland≈1 in 545K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 94 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 436K (inferred from the name graph)
≈250 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Suhay 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 436K | — | Suhay | 12 |
| US United States | — | 144 | 1 in 2.3M | 151 | Suhay | 94 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | — | Suhay | 7 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Suhay | 9 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 3.2M | — | Suhay | 2 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 545K | — | Suhay | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 5 | 1 in 2.1M | 5 | — | — |
| NR Nauru | #356 | — | — | — | Suhay | 1 |
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 2000; MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Suhay 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 Filipino, prop; support; brace (usually of houses against strong winds and storms)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In war, quarrel; brawl; feud; strife
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Imre Suhayb. 1822HUHungarian lawyer, judge (1822-1889)
- Lisa Suhayb. 1965USAmerican journalist
- Elizabeth Suhayb. 1973USAmerican political scientist and college teacher
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 8 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 151 | #108,734 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 148 | #122,574 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 144 | #120,187 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 5 | #120,849 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Suhay?
- A machine transcription gives /suheɪ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Suhay have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 250 people named Suhay in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled suhay.
- How common is the name Suhay?
- In the United States, the national register counted 144 people named Suhay in 2010, about 1 in 2.3 million residents.
- How common is Suhay compared with other names?
- In Nauru, Suhay is the 356th most common surname of 1,280 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Suhay?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/suhayThe 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, “Suhay” — the 356th most common surname in Nauru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.