Sul

loc · Latin script

Meaning: south

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Sul is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India.

rarermore common
  • INIndia

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

India (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
50 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

south

Sources 1

  • A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sul counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Sul is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India—72Sul50
US United States—530—22
BR Brazil—326——
PL Poland—77——
AL Albania—76——

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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-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)

Sul is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Germany, Philippines

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Suel, Süel, Sül, Sueel, Śul

  • Korean given name11 spellings in the group

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

    Also written 슬, Seul, 술, Seúl, Sèûl

  • Portuguese name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Guinea-Bissau, Portugal, Angola

    Also written Súl, Sül

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Šul, Sül, Śul

46 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Sul is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Portuguese, south (cardinal point)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, Sulawesi [Celebes]

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, island, Indonesia

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, region, Brazil

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In German, Slavic stem from asl. sulu 'better'

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

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)

1900195020002050Lee Gwan-sul, b. 1902Donggyu Sul, b. 1965Park Seul, b. 2005

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 30 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Sul
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010530#41,100
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020469#48,635
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000394#49,965
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—326#24,652
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202677—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—77#36,423
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—72#35,357
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202664—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—64#42,368
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—62#7,742
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

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 Sul mean, and where does it come from?
south Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
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Sul is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled sul.

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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.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sul”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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