Susan
Susan is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 213 births. Its best rank was 2nd, in 1957–1960.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 2130.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 195547,419 births
- Best rank
- #2first in 1957
- Since 1880
- 1,125,774people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,123,232 girls have been named Susan in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1955, with 47,419 births — 2.4% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 213 births in 2024, against 47,419 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1956, and the 1950s alone account for 39%. It has spent 139 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 55 of them in the top 100 and 24 in the top 10.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 2,542 boys have also been given it, 0.23% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Susan | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 3,231 | |
| 1890s | 3,612 | |
| 1900s | 3,447 | |
| 1910s | 6,814 | |
| 1920s | 8,408 | |
| 1930s | 21,028 | |
| 1940s | 212,014 | |
| 1950s | 437,773 | |
| 1960s | 287,661 | |
| 1970s | 88,310 | |
| 1980s | 30,547 | |
| 1990s | 10,893 | |
| 2000s | 5,312 | |
| 2010s | 3,047 | |
| 2020s | 1,135 |
In 1955, its biggest year
Susan was the 5th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1955 were Mary, Deborah, Linda, Debra and Susan. See all of 1955.
Names that rose and fell with Susan
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Suzanpeak 1955
- Lynpeak 1957
- Lynnpeak 1956
- Brendapeak 1957
- Pamellapeak 1954
- Vickipeak 1954
- Pameliapeak 1954
- Dianepeak 1955
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.