Suet
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Suet is a given name, most frequently recorded in Malaysia. In Hong Kong it is the 66th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Chinese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: The fatty tissue that surrounds and protects the kidneys; that of sheep and cattle is used in cooking and in making tallow.
- HKHong Kong1 in 1.3K◐
- MYMalaysia1 in 10K
- TWTaiwan1 in 63K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈476 ●
- Sources
- 96 ●
- 1 in 421K ◐
across 3 countries
18K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sut in DE Germany, IN India, IT Italy and 3 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●
The fatty tissue that surrounds and protects the kidneys; that of sheep and cattle is used in cooking and in making tallow.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | #791 | 6,364 | 5.9K rec. | — | — | Suet | 49 |
| HK Hong Kong | #66 | 2,774 | 1.6K rec. | — | — | Suet | 55 |
| TW Taiwan | — | 1,557 | 5 rec. | — | — | Suet | 22 |
| AU Australia | — | 1,170 | 1.2K rec. | — | 1 | Suet | 52 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 657 | 528 rec. | — | listed | Suet | 41 |
| US United States | — | 424 | 7.3K rec. | 1 in 785K | 424 | Suet | 96 |
| SG Singapore | — | 370 | 258 rec. | — | — | Suet | 41 |
| CA Canada | — | 225 | 226 rec. | — | 1 | Suet | 29 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 209 | 268 rec. | — | — | Suet | 12 |
| DE Germany | — | 199 | 253 rec. | — | — | Sut | 21 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 153 | 223 rec. | — | — | Suet | 12 |
| CN China | — | 125 | 66 rec. | — | — | Suet | 23 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English10K44%
- Chinese4.5K20%
- Malay3.7K16%
- Vietnamese6013%
- Spanish5082%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 10,299 | 44% |
| Chinese | 4,548 | 20% |
| Malay | 3,729 | 16% |
| Vietnamese | 601 | 3% |
| Spanish | 508 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Suet 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 Latin, third-person singular future active indicative of suō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, southeast
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1891 | 17 |
| 1901 | 55 |
| 1911 | 26 |
| 1921 | 54 |
| 1931 | 65 |
| 1941 | 64 |
| 1951 | 87 |
| 1961 | 95 |
| 1971 | 79 |
| 1981 | 63 |
| 1991 | 44 |
FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Patrick Suetb. 1954FRFrench official
- Nena Suetb. 2003BEBelgian association football player
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 20 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 424 | #22,492 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 186 | #38,998 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 95 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 87 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 79 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 65 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 64 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 63 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 55 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 54 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 44 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 41 | #9,527 |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 · 59 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Suet?
- We estimate roughly 476 people bear Suet (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
- In which country does Suet have the most bearers?
- Suet is most frequently recorded in Malaysia, where it is most often spelled suet.
- How common is Suet compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Suet is the 791st most common given name of 325,158 given names recorded there.
- Is Suet a male or female name?
- Suet 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 Suet mean?
- Recorded meaning: The fatty tissue that surrounds and protects the kidneys; that of sheep and cattle is used in cooking and in making tallow.
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About this data
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, “Suet” — the 791st most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.