Sua
Sua was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,972 among girls’ names; 192 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sua by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sua?
#16,972 among girls’ names, 2025
Sua fell from #16,197 in 2015 to #16,972 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 3.4 to 3.1 per million.
15 babies in 2022, the peak
Sua peaked in 2022, when 15 girls were given it, #7,588 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,972 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 5 | #17,383 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,296 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,588 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,311 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,663 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,733 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,941 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 11 | #10,029 | 6.2 |
| 2015 | 6 | #16,197 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 8 | #12,931 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,937 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,571 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,520 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,491 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,846 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,494 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,527 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,301 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,188 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,457 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,529 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,438 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 6 | #14,196 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 5 | #14,270 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sua a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sua has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sua: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sua, and how old are they?
An estimated 190 Americans named Sua and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 479 people named Sua (382 women and girls, 97 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 154 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Sua rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 148,399 babies since 1880, Sua is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 45 babies (11%), the fifth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Sua
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Sua and names like it
- Compare Sua and SueBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSua peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sua since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Sua.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Sua alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.