Sze
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A Chinese surname from Cantonese
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈʃeɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sze is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 700(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 1.6K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 6.2K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 269 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 700 (inferred from the name graph)
≈48,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Hong Kong, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A Chinese surname from Cantonese.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sze 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 | — | ≈48,000 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Sze | 36 |
| MY Malaysia | #375 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Sze | 80 |
| HK Hong Kong | #121 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 700 | — | Sze | 106 |
| SG Singapore | #609 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | — | Sze | 91 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 37K | 1 | Sze | 118 |
| US United States | — | 384 | 1 in 866K | 1.5K | Sze | 269 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)
Sze is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Filipino, a Chinese Filipino surname from Cantonese
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ISO 639-3 language code for Seze.
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)
- Xi Shib. 506CNnot in their usual nameone of the renowned Four Great Beauties of ancient China (b. 506 BC)
- Goujianb. 550not in their usual nameKing of Yue from 496 to 465 BC
- Shi Nai'anb. 1296CNnot in their usual nameChinese writer (1296-1372)
- Su Bengb. 1918TWnot in their usual nameActivist and former Senior Advisor to the President of Taiwan (1918–2019)
- Stan Shihb. 1944TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese businessman, Chairman Emeritus of Acer Incorporated (born 1944)
- Sarah Szeb. 1969USAmerican artist (born 1969)
- Charmaine Shehb. 1975CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actress
- Shi Jiayib. 1983CNnot in their usual nameChinese footballer
- Shi Tingmaob. 1991CNnot in their usual nameChinese diver
- Xia Yub. 2297CNnot in their usual nameXia Dynasty king and founder
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 27 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #18,622 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #19,865 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #21,424 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Sze mean, and where does it come from?
- A Chinese surname from Cantonese. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sze?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈʃeɪ/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Sze a male or female name?
- Sze 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 Sze have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 48 thousand people named Sze in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sze.
- How common is the name Sze?
- In the United States, the national register counted 384 people named Sze in 2020, about 1 in 866 thousand residents.
- How common is Sze compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Sze is the 121st most common given name of 23,276 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sze?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/szeThe 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, “Sze” — the 121st most common given name in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.