Sue

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Sue is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom. In Singapore it is the 33rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: 2 Short form of Susan and, less commonly, of Susanna and Suzanne.

rarermore common
  • NZNew Zealand1 in 740◐
  • SGSingapore1 in 766
  • AUAustralia1 in 788

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈100K ●

across 4 countries

#648 ●

of 16M given names

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
507 ●

3.9M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 3.4K ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

SueLatin · English●3.8M records
סוHebrew · Hebrew●1.8K records
สุเThai · Thai●402 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Su in BR Brazil, TW Taiwan, NL Netherlands and 6 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●

2 Short form of Susan and, less commonly, of Susanna and Suzanne. Variants: Su, Soo. Sukie Pet form of Susan, very common in the 18th century, but now rare. Variant: Sukey. Summer ° Mainly U.S.: from the vocabulary word for the season (Old English sumor), used in modern times as a given name because of its pleasant associations. Nevertheless, the name Autumn is now more common.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Sue is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GB United Kingdom#164217,758210K rec.—4Sue229
AU Australia#145147,032150K rec.—83Sue243
US United States#14398,9623M rec.1 in 3.4K99KSue507
CA Canada#17577,38382K rec.—1Sue188
MY Malaysia#10432,82537K rec.——Sue102
IT Italy#35321,97423K rec.——Sue52
DE Germany#63621,51725K rec.—1Sue123
SG Singapore#3314,04616K rec.——Sue101
CN China—13,52118K rec.—listedSue151
NZ New Zealand#5711,57611K rec.—14Sue122
EG Egypt#69610,0278.3K rec.——Sue33
PH Philippines—8,77010K rec.——Sue56

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English3.8M78%
  • 394K8%
  • Spanish178K4%
  • Portuguese39K1%
  • German39K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English3,789,38078%
394,4768%
Spanish177,8014%
Portuguese39,4891%
German38,6451%

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◐

Sue is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name431K records spelled Sue3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy

    Also written Sué, Süe

  • Spanish given name293K records spelled Sue22 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, France, United Kingdom

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French

    Also written Sué, Süe, Suè, Suê, Su-E

  • Hindi given name34K records spelled Sue42 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Bangla

    Also written Su, Shu, Suh, সু, Shue

  • Chinese given name25K records spelled Sue4 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Su-E, Su’e, Su'E

  • Polish given name21K records spelled Sue31 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

    Also written Сью, Суе, Суэ, Sioux, Šüê

  • Greek given name12K records spelled Sue9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Shu, Sou, Σου, Sôù, Choux

  • Hungarian given name6.1K records spelled Sue5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States, Finland, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Sué, Súé

63 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●

Sue 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, To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal (civil) action.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, variant of Susan

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In kr, before. burgurdm, s. the place, or court, where cases of oppression

    as a wordKanuri-English Vocabulary (in African Native Literature)

  • English: short form of SUSAN and, less commonly, of SUSANNA and SUZANNE . In the past couple of decades it has sometimes been used as an independent name. Variants: Su, Soo .

    as a word

  • In Latin, second-person singular present active imperative of suō

    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.

Over time●

02K4K6K1900195020005.3K · 1947

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Sue in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
188065
188167
188284
188368
188492
188594
188696
1887123
1888117
1889112
1890120
1891127
1892163
1893123
1894105
1895157
1896121
1897145
1898143
1899122
1900157
1901135
1902154
1903146
1904163
1905191
1906178
1907201
1908206
1909243
1910277
1911330
1912431
1913483
1914634
1915812
1916868
1917778
1918785
1919693
1920707
1921668
1922684
1923598
1924644
1925673
1926697
1927678
1928780
1929944
19301,213
19311,220
19321,509
19331,670
19341,933
19352,024
19362,222
19372,504
19382,589
19392,623
19403,104
19413,359
19423,631
19433,850
19444,034
19453,914
19465,144
19475,306
19484,675
19493,926
19503,503
19513,357
19523,335
19533,648
19543,975
19553,729
19563,755
19574,490
19584,673
19594,387
19604,009
19613,506
19623,184
19632,591
19642,173
19651,775
19661,316
19671,258
1968979
1969810
1970666
1971632
1972453
1973396
1974355
1975293
1976241
1977280
1978235
1979272
1980347
1981270
1982211
1983171
1984147
1985140
1986108
1987101
198897
198986
199074
199179
199268
199364
199448
199547
199638
199743
199832
199929
200036
200132
200225
200323
200414
200521
200622
200723
200817
200925
201017
201119
201213
201326
201415
201513
201612
201710
201816
20196
20215
20225
20239
202413
202511

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 145 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

190019502000Sue Carol, b. 1906Carolyn Jones, b. 1930Tovah Feldshuh, b. 1952Kate Capshaw, b. 1953Karen Pence, b. 1957Sue Gardner, b. 1967Sue Bird, b. 1980Danica Patrick, b. 1982Mika Boorem, b. 1987Bindi Irwin, b. 1998
  • Sue Carolb. 1906USAmerican actress, talent agent (1906–1982)
  • Carolyn Jonesb. 1930USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (1930–1983)
  • Tovah Feldshuhb. 1952USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
  • Kate Capshawb. 1953USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress who converted to Judaism
  • Karen Penceb. 1957USnot in their usual nameSecond Lady of the United States from 2017 to 2021
  • Sue Gardnerb. 1967CACanadian journalist
  • Sue Birdb. 1980USAmerican basketball player (born 1980)
  • Danica Patrickb. 1982USnot in their usual nameAmerican racecar driver (born 1982)
  • Mika Booremb. 1987USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
  • Bindi Irwinb. 1998AUnot in their usual nameAustralian conservationist and television personality

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●

Attested in 72 sources across 35 countries.

Official registers attesting Sue
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202099K#551
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.9K#14,939
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.5K#18,609
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.4K#17,935
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022866—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—848#9,123
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020649#551
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—589#12,946
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—522#1,958
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—212#5,281
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—158#6,219
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—125#4,737

Reference works 6

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 549 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Sue?
We estimate roughly 100 thousand people bear Sue (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
In which country does Sue have the most bearers?
Sue is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled sue.
How common is Sue compared with other names?
In the United Kingdom, Sue is the 164th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.
Is Sue a male or female name?
Sue 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 Sue mean?
Recorded meaning: 2 Short form of Susan and, less commonly, of Susanna and Suzanne.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Sue” — the 164th most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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