Sut

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Suet in US United States, MY Malaysia, HK Hong Kong and 12 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●

Attested across 9 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◐

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

• Polish surname1.9K records spelled Sut16 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Poland, Ukraine, Russia, United States

  Languages: Polish, Russian, Ukrainian

  Also written Сут, Суть, Süt, Şut, Sút

• Spanish surname1.9K records spelled Sut10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Guatemala, Argentina, Spain, United States

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Süt, Şut, Sứt, Șut, Sút

• French surname702 records spelled Sut4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Belgium

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Süt, Șut

• Turkish surname613 records spelled Sut8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, India, United States, Romania

  Also written Süt, Şut, Şüt, Sùt

• a separate surname492 records spelled Sut3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Türkiye

  Also written Süt, Šut

• Khmer surname383 records spelled Sut2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Malaysia, Cambodia

  Also written Sūt

52 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●

Sut 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, Initialism of system under test.

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

• In Hungarian, inglenook (the narrow place between the furnace and the wall)

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

• ISO 639-3 language code for Subtiaba.

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

• In Finnish, accusative singular of sinä

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

• In fur, dry, dried, arid, burnt

  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●

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●

• Luca Sutb. 1982ITItalian politician

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 · 96 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Sut?

We estimate roughly 476 people bear Sut (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.

In which country does Sut have the most bearers?

Sut is most frequently recorded in Malaysia, where it is most often spelled suet.

How common is Sut compared with other names?

In Malaysia, Sut is the 791st most common given name of 325,158 given names recorded there.

What does the name Sut mean?

Recorded meaning: third-person singular past historic of savoir