Su
Meaning
one spelling, two names: စု, to gather (the Suu of Aung San Suu Kyi), and ဆု, a wish or reward; both are Tuesday-letter names, and both usually end up written Su or Suu in US records
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Su has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
See popularity in Brazil
Popularity in Brazil
278 people · the #20,117 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 1,000,000 · median age 45
Among people named Su living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1980s than in any other decade.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
The Su deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Su truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Su fits with your family’s names and surname.
Where Su travels
Turkish · water
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