Suella
Suella was last recorded in 1983, when 5 babies were given it; 405 Americans have been recorded with it between 1907 and 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Suella by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Suella mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Suella is “a female given name.”
Blend of Sue + Ella.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Suella?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,825, in 1983; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
19 babies in 1948, the peak
Suella peaked in 1948, when 19 girls were given it, #2,320 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 5 | #11,825 | 3.0 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,469 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,266 | 4.2 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,348 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,730 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,743 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,679 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,499 | 3.1 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,477 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,406 | 2.5 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 7 | #5,627 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,141 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,914 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,505 | 4.4 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,877 | 3.0 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,519 | 2.6 |
| 1953 | 14 | #3,087 | 7.4 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,494 | 3.2 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,974 | 5.0 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,764 | 8.8 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,865 | 5.3 |
| 1948 | 19 | #2,320 | 11.2 |
| 1947 | 16 | #2,621 | 9.0 |
| 1946 | 18 | #2,303 | 11.5 |
| 1945 | 16 | #2,227 | 12.2 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,750 | 9.0 |
| 1943 | 11 | #3,015 | 7.9 |
| 1942 | 17 | #2,195 | 12.6 |
| 1941 | 15 | #2,259 | 12.4 |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,399 | 11.4 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,194 | 5.5 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,927 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 9 | #3,122 | 8.5 |
| 1936 | 6 | #4,118 | 5.8 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,888 | 4.7 |
| 1930 | 5 | #5,166 | 4.4 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,738 | 5.0 |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,521 | 7.6 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,379 | 5.8 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,385 | 5.6 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,623 | 7.5 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,976 | 6.5 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,336 | 5.8 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,766 | 7.1 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,525 | 5.5 |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,199 | 6.1 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,351 | 15.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Suella a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Suella has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Suella: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Suella, and how old are they?
An estimated 212 Americans named Suella and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (52% of everyone recorded); the median is 75 years old and half are between 65 and 80. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 328 people named Suella (328 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 251 born in the U.S. The Census count is 31% above 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 spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,967 babies since 1880, Suella is the second most given (21% of them).
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 Suella
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 Suella and names like it
- Compare Suella and SulaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sSuella peaked in 1948.
- The top names of 1948The year the most babies were named Suella.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Suella alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with SMost given first.