Sumi
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A Japanese inkstick
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sumi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sumi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 269Kas Sim
- BHBahrain≈1 in 9.3K
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 Sumi 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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 172 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈98,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Sim in MY Malaysia.
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)
A Japanese inkstick.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sumi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #124 | ≈98,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Sumi | 58 |
| FI Finland | — | 6,277as Samu | 1 in 888 | 6.4K | — | 2 |
| US United States | — | 1,238as Sim | 1 in 269K | 6.4K | Sumi | 172 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 175K | — | Sumi | 18 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Sim | 13 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Sumi | 28 |
| HK Hong Kong | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Sumi | 8 |
| BH Bahrain | #444 | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | — | Sumi | 5 |
| ES Spain | — | 29 | 1 in 1.7M | 94 | Sumi | 13 |
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: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
Sumi 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.
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In cau-drg-pro, gall, anger
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Latin, present passive infinitive of sūmō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In lzz, Latin spelling of სუმი (sumi)
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)
- Sumi Yukawab. 1910JPHideki Yukawa's wife (1910-2006)
- Sumi Kosakaib. 1929JPJapanese author
- Kim Su-mib. 1949KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress (1949–2024)
- Oh Soo-mib. 1949KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Sumi Konnob. 1952JPJapanese tanka poet
- Sumi Shimamotob. 1954JPJapanese voice actress
- Sumi Job. 1962KRSouth Korean operatic soprano
- Eun Soo-mib. 1963KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean sociologist and politician
- Sumi Mutōb. 1971JPJapanese voice actress
- Sumi Hwangb. 1986KRSouth Korean singer
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 45 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 414 | #53,865 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 350 | #58,042 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 325 | #58,397 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 48 | #23,735 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 23 | #75,974 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 23 | #75,692 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Sumi mean, and where does it come from?
- A Japanese inkstick. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sumi?
- A machine transcription gives /sumi/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Sumi a male or female name?
- Sumi 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 Sumi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 98 thousand people named Sumi in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sumi.
- How common is the name Sumi?
- In Spain, the national register counted 29 people named Sumi, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
- How common is Sumi compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Sumi is the 124th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sumi?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sumiThe 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, “Sumi” — the 124th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.