Suede
Suede is given to both girls and boys: 36 girls and 110 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,056 among girls’ names and #1,561 among boys’, #2,759 among all names counting both); 513 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Suede by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Suede?
#1,561 among boys’ names, 2025
Suede rose from #11,892 in 2015 to #1,561 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.1 to 64.4 per million.
146 babies in 2025, the peak
Suede peaked in 2025, when 146 babies were given it (110 boys, #1,561 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 82 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #4,056 | 110 | #1,561 |
| 2024 | 32 | #4,459 | 82 | #1,934 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,642 | 47 | #2,766 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,471 | 26 | #4,168 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,916 | 20 | #4,903 |
| 2020 | under 5 | 11 | #7,431 | |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,264 | 8 | #9,624 |
| 2018 | under 5 | 10 | #8,077 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 5 | #13,985 | |
| 2015 | under 5 | 6 | #11,892 |
Every recorded year (17)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | under 5 | 5 | #11,378 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 5 | #11,082 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 13 | #4,914 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 10 | #5,857 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 14 | #4,497 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 13 | #4,654 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 8 | #6,610 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Suede a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 513 Americans recorded as Suede, 23% are girls and 77% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Suede: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Suede, and how old are they?
An estimated 508 Americans named Suede and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 2 years old and half are between 1 and 5. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 176 people named Suede (48 women and girls, 128 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 107 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 that rose and fell in the same decades as Suede
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.
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