Suyin
given name · Latin script
Meaning: ‘Plain or unadorned sound’, a classical expression referring to news, as in news of a person
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: SRCEI, 2021
/suʝin/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Suyin is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country.
- VEVenezuela1 in 37K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.6M
- TWTaiwan≈1 in 102K
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.
- Venezuela (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 89 (measured from records)
- 1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)
773 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Venezuela
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Su-Yin in TW Taiwan.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)‘Plain or unadorned sound’, a classical expression referring to news, as in news of a person. This is the given name of the 20th-century writer Han Suyin, author of A many-splendoured Thing and My house has two doors. =
Cited for this meaning 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Suyin 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | 773 | 1 in 37K | 773 | Suyin | 20 |
| TW Taiwan | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 102K | — | Su-Yin | 13 |
| US United States | 203 | 1 in 1.6M | 201 | Suyin | 89 |
| CL Chile | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 151K | 1 | Suyin | 23 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 293K | — | Suyin | 16 |
| SG Singapore | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 186K | — | Suyin | 26 |
| CR Costa Rica | 28 | 1 in 182K | 28 | Suyin | 6 |
773 people counted by asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996). 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: asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Suyin Aertsb. 1974BEBelgian dancer, actor and entrepreneur
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 773 | #1,929 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 201 | #38,064 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 28 | #4,744 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1993 | 9 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1990 | 8 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1987 | 7 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1991 | 6 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2000 | 4 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1992 | 4 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1988 | 4 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1982 | 4 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1980 | 4 | — |
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
- What does the name Suyin mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘Plain or unadorned sound’, a classical expression referring to news, as in news of a person. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Suyin?
- A machine transcription gives /suʝin/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Suyin a male or female name?
- Suyin is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Venezuela (asosab) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Suyin have the most bearers?
- In Venezuela, the national register counted about 773 people named Suyin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled suyin.
- Where is Suyin most common?
- Suyin is densest in Venezuela, where the national register counts about 1 in 37 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Suyin?
- In Venezuela, the national register counted 773 people named Suyin, about 1 in 37 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/suyinThe 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, “Suyin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.