Su

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Sue in US United States, KR South Korea, GB United Kingdom and 16 more, סו in IL Israel and So in SY Syria.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Su is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Korean given name45K records spelled Su19 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, South Korea, Malaysia, United Kingdom

  Also written Şu, Sŭ, Sử, Sư, Sứ

• Malay given name41K records spelled Su12 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia, United States, Singapore

  Languages: Malay, Indonesian

  Also written Su', Sü, Sú, Šü, Śu

• a separate given name25K records spelled Su15 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, China, India, United Kingdom

  Also written S-U, Sü, Sủ, Šü, Šu

• Burmese given name21K records spelled Su44 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Myanmar (Burma), United States, Malaysia, Singapore

  Also written Sū, Šü, Sû, Sü, Śü

• a separate given name14K records spelled Su28 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, United Kingdom, Spain

  Also written Sù, Sû, Sử, Šự, Sũ

88 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Su 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.

• Nigerian people: Bantu-speaking ethnic group

  as a name·African Names

• In ko-pro, pure, simple (pref.)

  as a word·StarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

• In English, Alternative form of xu (“former Vietnamese currency”).

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Vietnamese, North Central Vietnam form of sâu (“deep”)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Chinese, nonstandard spelling of sū

  as a word·kaikki.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.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 78 years between 1935–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Penn Sub. 1861USfirst Korean graduate of a US college or university
• Su Zhaozhengb. 1885CNChinese politician (1885–1929)
• Su Rogersb. 1939GBBritish architect
• Su Elliotb. 1950GBBritish actress
• Su Su Lwinb. 1952MMBurmese politician
• Su Friedrichb. 1954USAmerican filmmaker (born 1954)
• Su Turhanb. 1966TRTurkish film producer and screenwriter (born 1966)
• Su Erdtb. 1973CHSwiss production designer
• Gaye Su Akyolb. 1985TRTurkish singer, painter and anthropologist (born 1985)
• Su Burcu Yazgı Coşkunb. 2005TRTurkish actor (born 2005)

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 378 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Su?

We estimate roughly 100 thousand people bear Su (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.

In which country does Su have the most bearers?

Su is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled sue.

How common is Su compared with other names?

In the United Kingdom, Su is the 164th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.

Is Su a male or female name?

Su is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Su mean?

Recorded meaning: Personal characteristic: from a variant of the adjective süß 'sweet' (or mhd.