Given name
Shuo
“one who achieves greatness”
Shuo is used as a given name. One Chinese interpretation is “one who achieves greatness.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Chinese interpretation is “one who achieves greatness.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Chinese.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2017. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Shuo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2017
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2017. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,120 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Shuo’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Shuo
- Guo ShoujingChinese astronomer and mathematician (1231–1316)
- Fang ShuoChinese basketball player (born 1990)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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