Sueli

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

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

Sueli is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From the Germanic root suel, meaning "shining". Alternatively a variant of Suélen.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 1K◐
  • ARArgentina1 in 602K
  • USUnited States1 in 741K

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

≈206K ●

across 5 countries

#546 ●

of 16M given names

Sources
158 ●

135K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.0K ◐

Brazil

Spellings & scripts●

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Suli in AU Australia, IN India, MY Malaysia and 1 more.

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●

From the Germanic root suel, meaning "shining". Alternatively a variant of Suélen.

Sources 1

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Sueli is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#107205,441126K rec.1 in 1K245KSueli158
AR Argentina—1,135774 rec.—126Sueli24
PY Paraguay#902982538 rec.——Sueli10
US United States—4494.3K rec.1 in 741K449Sueli98
PT Portugal#980441150 rec.—listedSueli33
PE Peru—311266 rec.——Sueli13
GB United Kingdom—282292 rec.——Sueli27
DE Germany—270390 rec.—1Sueli31
AU Australia—212365 rec.—1Suli36
ES Spain—174281 rec.1 in 287K174Sueli29
IT Italy—144156 rec.—1Sueli20
UY Uruguay—13488 rec.—1Sueli10

Roughly 205K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 1K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

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

Languages●

  • Portuguese4M95%
  • English207K5%
  • Spanish3.5K1%
  • ptbr2.4K1%
  • Japanese4711%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese4,045,60495%
English207,1955%
Spanish3,4981%
ptbr2,4421%
Japanese4711%

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◐

Sueli is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name799 records spelled Sueli4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Brazil

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Suéli, Suelí

  • a separate given name729 records spelled Sueli3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Suéli, Suelí

  • Hindi given name637 records spelled Sueli4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Estonia, Spain

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Suéli, Suelí

  • Japanese given name512 records spelled Sueli2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Japan, United States

    Also written Suéli

  • Russian given name317 records spelled Sueli9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Estonia

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Suely, Суэли, Suelí, Suély

  • Danish given name301 records spelled Sueli6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, Estonia

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian

    Also written Suelí

36 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.

Over time●

0100K200K300K19401960198020002020

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Sueli in IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), Brazil, 1930–2022
Yearrecords
19301
1940807
19508,915
196048,923
1970116,451
1980168,779
1990196,182
2000202,660
2010204,732
2020205,322
2022205,441

BR IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) — 11 years between 1930–2022. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

190019502000Suely Gomes de Oliveira, b. 1915Sueli Costa, b. 1943Sueli Carneiro, b. 1950Sueli Aoki, b. 1955Sueli Vidigal, b. 1955Sueli Pereira dos Santos, b. 1965Sueli Rodrigues, b. 2000

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 29 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Sueli
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—245K#211
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—244K#57
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022205K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2020205K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2010205K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—205K#157
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2000203K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)1990196K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)1980169K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)1970116K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)196068K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)197052K—

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name 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 · 133 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Sueli?
We estimate roughly 206 thousand people bear Sueli (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
In which country does Sueli have the most bearers?
We estimate about 205 thousand people bear Sueli in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled sueli.
Where is Sueli most common?
Sueli is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.0 thousand people carrying it.
How common is Sueli compared with other names?
In Brazil, Sueli is the 107th most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.
Is Sueli a male or female name?
Sueli 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 Sueli mean?
Recorded meaning: From the Germanic root suel, meaning "shining". Alternatively a variant of Suélen.
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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, “Sueli” — the 107th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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