Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2010. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sui through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 96
- 0 boys · 96 girls
- Most popular year
- 2019
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #16,979 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −30%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 16,979 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 15 in 2019. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,422 as a first name in 2020; 1,793 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Sui’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Sui is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 水.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 5
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Sui
- Sui XinmeiChinese athletics competitor (born 1965)
- Huang Suibadminton playerborn 1982
- Sui LuArtistic Gymnastborn 1992
- Sui HeChinese modelborn 1989
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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