Suman

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Saman in IR Iran, PH Philippines, IQ Iraq and สมาน in TH Thailand.

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 4 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◐

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

• Bangla surname108K records spelled Suman85 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Bangladesh, India, Malaysia, Singapore

  Languages: Bangla, English, Swahili

  Also written Sumon, সুমন, Somon, সমন, সূমন

• a separate given name100K records spelled Suman4 spellings in the group

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

  Also written Š̄ūmān, Sumàn, Šuman

• English given name84K records spelled Suman40 spellings in the group

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

  Languages: English, German, Norwegian

  Also written Sueman, Šuman, Şuman, Süman, Su-Man

• Spanish given name12K records spelled Suman16 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Brazil, Spain

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Şuman, Sûmáñ, Šuman, Sumán, Sumañ

• Chinese given name6.3K records spelled Suman3 spellings in the group

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

  Languages: Chinese, Burmese

  Also written Su-Man

• Turkish given name4.8K records spelled Suman14 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Türkiye, United States, Syria

  Languages: Turkish, Arabic

  Also written Şuman, Süman, Sűmäñ, Şüman, Şümäñ

• Croatian surname2.8K records spelled Suman29 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Croatia, India, United States, Bosnia & Herzegovina

  Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

  Also written Šuman, Schumann, Shuman, Шуман, Суман

48 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●

Suman 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, Rice cake from the Philippines made from glutinous rice cooked in coconut milk, usually eaten sprinkled with sugar or laden with latik.

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

• In Filipino, suman (Filipino rice cake cooked in coconut milk, often wrapped in leaves)

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

• In Spanish, third-person plural present indicative of sumar

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

• In non, masculine accusative singular of sumr

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

• In gem-pro, once, at some point (in the past)

  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●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 110 years between 1889–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Suman Deodharb. 1930INbadminton player
• Suman Kalyanpurb. 1937INIndian singer
• Lee Soo Manb. 1952KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean businessman and record producer (born 1952)
• Suman Mukhopadhyayb. 1966INIndian film director
• Suman Pokhrelb. 1967NPNepalese poet, lyricist, playwright, translator and artist
• Suman Ranganathanb. 1973INIndian actress
• Suman Haripriyab. 1979INpolitician and film director
• Suman Kumar Tumulurib. 1983INPh.D. Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie - Paris VI 2009
• Suman Desaib. 1996USAmerican entrepreneur
• Suman JhaINresearcher

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 · 354 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Suman?

We estimate roughly 3.1 thousand people bear Suman (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Suman have the most bearers?

Suman is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled suman.

How common is Suman compared with other names?

In India, Suman is the 46th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.

Is Suman a male or female name?

Suman 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 Suman mean?

Recorded meaning: good repute; fame