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Sude

Girls' name

From Persian ﺳﻮﺩﻩ; literal meaning unconfirmed

Sude has been given to 45 babies in the U.S. since 2003. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2008, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Sude, 2009

1 in 478,000

Sude over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sude: meaning, origin, and history

From Persian ﺳﻮﺩﻩ; literal meaning unconfirmed

Persian and Arabic

What Sude means

Sude is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Sude is used in Turkish. Its origins include Persian and Arabic.

Sude comes through Persian ﺳﻮﺩﻩ.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Turkish, Sude is pronounced /suˈde/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 45 girls were recorded with the name Sude between 2003 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2008; its best national rank was #11,495 in 2008.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Sude?

Sude had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2009
1 in 478,000
8 of 3,820,315 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2009
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,006 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sude sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2009 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 331,006 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sude. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sudes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sude was born before 2007 — so the typical Sude is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
45
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (45).

Is Sude rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2008 (10)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#11,495
2008

Spellings of Sude

Sude is not the most common spelling — Judy is, with 29.8% against Sude's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Sude around the world

Where Sude ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2000–2016
    #4,096
    in 2016
  • France
    2002–2016
    #5,501
    in 2016

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Sude by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#11,495
2008
Peak year
2008
10 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
45
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sude

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Sude

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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