Suna

given name · Turkish · Latin script

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

Suna is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 92nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Turkish and Hindi, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: drake.

rarermore common
  • YEYemen1 in 15◐
  • CZCzechia1 in 282
  • TRTürkiye1 in 416

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

≈258K ●

across 9 countries

#444 ●

of 16M given names

12 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
408 ●

4.5M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 250 ◐

Finland

Spellings & scripts●

SoniLatin · Hindi●1.8M records
СанияCyrillic · Russian●144K records
선아Hangul · Korean●37K records
ᲡონაGeorgian · Georgian●2.6K records
สุนาThai · Thai●2.4K records
שאנהHebrew · Hebrew●371 records
ՍոնաArmenian · Armenian●228 records
সানBengali · Bangla●24 records
సనTelugu · Telugu●1 records
ΣοναGreek · Greek●1 records
ਸੁਨGurmukhi · Punjabi●1 records
සේනSinhala · Sinhala●0 records

20 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sana in FR France, PK Pakistan, ES Spain and 2 more, Shauna in US United States, CA Canada, AU Australia and 1 more, Jona in PH Philippines, FI Finland, BR Brazil and 1 more and Сания in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan.

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●

drake

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Suna is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#924,416,5151.9M rec.—218KSoni273
TR Türkiye#321877,312953K rec.—#94Şen103
YE Yemen—267,173236 rec.——Sanaa14
RU Russia#243175,13157K rec.—#122Сания127
US United States#433164,680957K rec.1 in 2K165KShauna408
TH Thailand#119148,56785K rec.—#92,533สุนีย์128
NG Nigeria#39117,517129K rec.—listedSani76
GB United Kingdom#39870,08358K rec.—36Shona159
PK Pakistan#9159,5828.3K rec.—listedSana113
KR South Korea#20557,05229K rec.—1M선아146
PH Philippines#56839,36234K rec.—32KJona74
CZ Czechia#11137,906△2.7K rec.1 in 28238KSona95

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

Languages●

  • Turkish307K86%
  • Hindi21K6%
  • German5.9K2%
  • English3.9K1%
  • 3.6K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Turkish307,04786%
Hindi21,3376%
German5,8742%
English3,9331%
3,6441%

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◐

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

  • Hindi given name94K records spelled Suna3 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Sūna, Sună

  • German given name16K records spelled Suna32 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Brazil, Türkiye

    Languages: German, English, Portuguese

    Also written Suena, Sun-A, Suña, Sueña, Sunà

  • a separate given name6.8K records spelled Suna9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Ecuador, United States, Türkiye

    Also written Suña, Su-Na, Sun-A, Sůna, Šůna

  • French given name3.5K records spelled Suna6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Türkiye, Belgium, Spain

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Šuña, Sùna, Suña, Súna

  • Indonesian given name2.7K records spelled Suna3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Türkiye, Indonesia, United States

    Also written Suña, Suňa

  • Danish given name1.0K records spelled Suna7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, Türkiye, India

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian

    Also written Suña

46 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●

Suna 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 Turkish, 1. Bir tür yaban ördeği, erkek ördek. 2. Boylu, güzel, yakışıklı.

    as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

  • Indra (५)

    as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

  • Fame.

    as a nameThe African book of names

  • In lua, to bring or carry or fetch or draw water from a spring or stream.

    as a wordGrammar and Dictionary of the Buluba-Lulua Language

  • In tuw-pro, dog rope

    as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

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●

02040601920194019601980200060 · 1993

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Suna in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1901–2016
Yearrecords
19011
19182
19201
19233
19241
19252
19263
19282
19293
193010
19315
19325
19333
19346
19357
193611
19374
193810
193910
194011
194111
194217
194315
194414
194525
194619
194718
194819
194923
195025
195138
195222
195326
195427
195528
195632
195728
195831
195933
196032
196143
196230
196328
196431
196551
196642
196748
196837
196933
197044
197133
197243
197342
197428
197536
197628
197736
197836
197929
198028
198137
198236
198334
198427
198553
198630
198746
198838
198935
199038
199134
199247
199360
199455
199552
199626
199734
199815
19993
20021
20071
20083
20103
20121
20134
20143
20153
20161

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 88 years between 1901–2016. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1930194019501960Suna Pekuysal, b. 1933Suna Tanaltay, b. 1933Suna Kan, b. 1936Suna Korad, b. 1936Suna Selen, b. 1939Suna Keskin, b. 1940Suna Kıraç, b. 1941Suna Rocha, b. 1948Suna Yıldızoğlu, b. 1955Suna Murray, b. 1955

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 61 sources across 32 countries.

Official registers attesting Suna
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—16K#736
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—829#278
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020449#22,003
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—166#13,614
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—166#4,063
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020143#125,732
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010143#120,901
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—139#6,674
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—137#49,761
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—123#2,865
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024121#9,521
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—108#1,509

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 · 429 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Suna?
We estimate roughly 258 thousand people bear Suna (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Suna have the most bearers?
Suna is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled soni.
How common is Suna compared with other names?
In India, Suna is the 92nd most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Suna a male or female name?
Suna is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
What does the name Suna mean?
Recorded meaning: drake
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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, “Suna” — the 92nd most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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