Given name & surname
Suna
“a swanlike woman”
Suna is used as a given name and a surname. One Turkish interpretation is “a swanlike woman.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Turkish interpretation is “a swanlike woman.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Turkish.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1980. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Suna through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 34
- 0 boys · 34 girls
- Most popular year
- 2024
- 9 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 girls is 9 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 456 as a first name in 2020; 143 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.
Suna’s family of names
Suna may belong to the same name family as SSUNA. This is a tentative spelling connection.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Suna
- Suna KymäläinenFinnish politicianborn 1976
- Suna SelenTurkish actor (born 1939)
- Suna YıldızoğluTurkish actor (born 1955)
- Suna KıraçTurkish-American businessperson (1941–2020)
- Suna KanTurkish violinist (1936–2023)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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