Sujan
The name means "good person, virtuous". In Poland it stays rare: around 120 men carry it, and most Poles have never met one.
Sujan Pronunciation
Sujan is pronounced SOO-yahn (/ˈsujan/).
What Sujan means
Where Sujan comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Sujan traces back to Sanskrit, where the element su means good and jana means person or people. Set side by side, they describe a good person, someone virtuous. The short meaning and the origin agree here, which is less common than you might guess.
In Poland the name is rare. Read from a class register, Sujan sits among names like Kacper and Zuzanna and marks a family with roots outside the usual Polish saints' calendar. No name-day belongs to it, so a child who carries it has no fixed imieniny to celebrate.
The word keeps its old job. It still points at character, at a person judged good rather than one merely admired. Su and jana, good and people: the name says virtuous, and it has meant that for a long time.
How many people are named Sujan
1 in 176415 men in Poland is named Sujan. 121 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3059 among male names.