Entry № 10133 · Hmong origin

Suni Suni — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SOO-nee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hmong
Meaning
"Pure goodness (Suni Lee, 2020 Olympic gymnastics all-around gold)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Hmong)

A name that means "pure goodness (suni lee, 2020 olympic gymnastics all-around gold)".

Suni is the chosen-name short form of Sunisa Phabsomphou Lee, born 2003 — also from the Hmong sunisa (pure goodness). NCAA all-around champion at Auburn (2022). Diagnosed in 2023 with two rare kidney diseases (incurable) that nearly ended her career; her comeback to the 2024 Olympics was Time Athlete of the Year shortlist. Father John Lee was paralyzed two days before her US Championships in 2019; she competed and won; her father watched from his hospital bed.

Subject of countless 2020s gymnastics histories.

Pure goodness (Suni Lee, 2020 Olympic gymnastics all-around gold) — a Hmong name.

The name in its native script.

Suni
Transliteration
Suni
Pronunciation
/ ˈsuː.ni /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Suni stands.

Suni does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Sunis before her.

Real people
Suni Lee
American Olympic gymnast.
born 2003
In fiction
Suni
Various American media.

Names connected to Suni.

The number behind Suni.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Suni reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.