Sze
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Sze is a given name, most frequently recorded in Malaysia. In Hong Kong it is the 98th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Chinese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A Chinese surname from Cantonese.
- HKHong Kong1 in 1.9K◐
- MYMalaysia1 in 5.4K
- AUAustralia1 in 26K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈287 ●
- Sources
- 241 ●
- 1 in 222K ◐
across 6 countries
45K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Meaning & origin●
A Chinese surname from Cantonese.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | #394 | 12,103 | 13K rec. | — | — | Sze | 77 |
| AU Australia | — | 4,497 | 5.1K rec. | — | 1 | Sze | 109 |
| HK Hong Kong | #98 | 1,933 | 2.6K rec. | — | — | Sze | 101 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,026 | 1.3K rec. | — | listed | Sze | 62 |
| SG Singapore | #561 | 894 | 1.1K rec. | — | — | Sze | 82 |
| CA Canada | — | 381 | 901 rec. | — | 5 | Sze | 74 |
| DE Germany | — | 201 | 290 rec. | — | — | Sze | 25 |
| US United States | — | 196 | 18K rec. | 1 in 1.7M | 1.5K | Sze | 241 |
| CN China | — | 157 | 215 rec. | — | — | Sze | 36 |
| PH Philippines | — | 83 | 516 rec. | — | — | Sze | 43 |
| SE Sweden | — | 46△ | 8 rec. | 1 in 222K | 46 | — | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 30 | 219 rec. | 1 in 576K | 30 | Sze | 10 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English31K39%
- Chinese18K23%
- Malay17K22%
- Indonesian2.2K3%
- Spanish1.2K2%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 30,590 | 39% |
| Chinese | 17,990 | 23% |
| Malay | 17,193 | 22% |
| Indonesian | 2,190 | 3% |
| Spanish | 1,244 | 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●
Sze 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 Filipino, a Chinese Filipino surname from Cantonese
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ISO 639-3 language code for Seze.
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.
Notable people with this name●
- Xi Shib. 506CNnot in their usual nameone of the renowned Four Great Beauties of ancient China (b. 506 BC)
- Goujianb. 550not in their usual nameKing of Yue from 496 to 465 BC
- Shi Nai'anb. 1296CNnot in their usual nameChinese writer (1296-1372)
- Su Bengb. 1918TWnot in their usual nameActivist and former Senior Advisor to the President of Taiwan (1918–2019)
- Stan Shihb. 1944TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese businessman, Chairman Emeritus of Acer Incorporated (born 1944)
- Sarah Szeb. 1969USAmerican artist (born 1969)
- Charmaine Shehb. 1975CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actress
- Shi Jiayib. 1983CNnot in their usual nameChinese footballer
- Shi Tingmaob. 1991CNnot in their usual nameChinese diver
- Xia Yub. 2297CNnot in their usual nameXia Dynasty king and founder
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 26 sources across 16 countries.
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 · 55 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Sze?
- We estimate roughly 287 people bear Sze (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Sze have the most bearers?
- Sze is most frequently recorded in Malaysia, where it is most often spelled sze.
- How common is Sze compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Sze is the 394th most common given name of 325,158 given names recorded there.
- Is Sze a male or female name?
- Sze 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 Sze mean?
- Recorded meaning: A Chinese surname from Cantonese.
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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, “Sze” — the 394th most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.