Sun
loc · Latin script
Meaning: from Germanic *sunja- 'truth' and related names; also mixed with *sunna- 'sun' and *suona- 'judgment, reconciliation'
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Sun is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 3.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 14K
- CNChina≈1 in 373
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 Sun 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 463 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 373 (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,700,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
China, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Suen in AU Australia, HK Hong Kong, MY Malaysia and 1 more and Сунь in CN China.
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)
from Germanic *sunja- 'truth' and related names; also mixed with *sunna- 'sun' and *suona- 'judgment, reconciliation'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sun 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈3,700,000 est. | ≈1 in 373 | — | Сунь | 204 |
| TW Taiwan | — | ≈49,000 est. | ≈1 in 483 | — | Sun | 158 |
| US United States | — | 24,058 | 1 in 14K | 37K | Sun | 463 |
| HK Hong Kong | #228 | ≈9,700 est. | ≈1 in 748 | — | Suen | 96 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | Suen | 67 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Suen | 201 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Suen | 119 |
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 2020. 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)
Sun 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 English, The star that Earth revolves around, and from which it receives light and heat.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Chinese/Korean; meaning unclear in OCR
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In kr, pants. segt'te, n. a. the act of panting. 8$i, i. q. sai or sdndi, which see. sebd, s. the morning at, and a little after, sunrise. 8ebdma} s. an early riser. sSdram, s. a morning beverage of wealthier men, prepared of
as a wordKanuri-English Vocabulary (in African Native Literature)
In kr, set. comp. kcm. kengdma, s. a follower. kengar, 1. q. hangar , a certain tree. kengqll, a. male; e.g. tdta kengqll, a boy. kengqll, s. a male, a boy; e.g. ngd kengqll ydsge, here are
as a wordKanuri-English Vocabulary (in African Native Literature)
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)
- Sun Quanb. 182CNEmperor of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period
- Sun Tzub. 544CN6th century BCE Chinese general and military strategist
- Sun Yat-senb. 1866CNChinese politician, physician, and revolutionary (1866–1925)
- Masayoshi Sonb. 1957JPnot in their usual nameJapanese businessman
- Sun Hongleib. 1970CNChinese actor
- Sun Wenb. 1973CNChinese footballer (born 1973)
- Sun Jihaib. 1977CNChinese footballer
- Stefanie Sunb. 1978SGSingaporean singer
- Rainbow Sun Francksb. 1979CACanadian actor
- Susan Sunb. 1982CNChinese actress
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 70 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 37K | #929 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 24K | #1,484 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 15K | #2,228 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Sun mean, and where does it come from?
- from Germanic *sunja- 'truth' and related names; also mixed with *sunna- 'sun' and *suona- 'judgment, reconciliation' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- In which country does Sun have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.7 million people named Sun in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled сунь.
- How common is the name Sun?
- In the United States, the national register counted 24,058 people named Sun in 2010, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Sun compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Sun is the 228th most common surname of 8,142 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sunThe 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, “Sun” — the 228th most common surname in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.