Sundang
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A kind of dagger or short machete
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Sundang is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 121K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 2.6M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 4 (measured from records)
- 1 in 121K (inferred from the name graph)
46 people
Reference-verified
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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 kind of dagger or short machete.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sundang 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | 46 | 1 in 121K | 46 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 4 | 1 in 2.6M | 4 | — | 1 |
| PH Philippines | — | — | — | Sundang | 4 |
| MY Malaysia | — | — | — | Sundang | 4 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | — | 1 |
46 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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 — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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)
Sundang 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 Cebuano, a type of bolo knife; a large, long-bladed, sharp-pointed cutting tool similar to a machete
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, dagger; short machete; heavy knife
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In war, bolo; machete; large, heavy knife
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bik, bolo (Philippine machete)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In hil, a type of bolo knife
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sundang mean, and where does it come from?
- A kind of dagger or short machete. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Sundang have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 46 people named Sundang, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Sundang most common?
- Sundang is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 121 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Sundang?
- In Finland, the national register counted 46 people named Sundang, about 1 in 121 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sundang?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sundangThe 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, “Sundang”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.