Suellen
Suellen was last recorded in 2020, when 6 babies were given it; 3,342 Americans have been recorded with it between 1936 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,380 Americans named Suellen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (71% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 62 and 78.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Suellen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Suellen mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Suellen is “a female given name.”
Blend of Sue + Ellen. Abbreviation of Sue-Ellen/Sue Ellen.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Suellen?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,896, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
159 babies in 1941, the peak
Suellen peaked in 1941, when 159 girls were given it, #556 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 6 | #14,896 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,833 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,226 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,778 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,631 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,831 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,652 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,488 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,294 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 5 | #13,008 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 8 | #8,419 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 7 | #9,168 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,228 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 14 | #5,110 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,886 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,322 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,981 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 19 | #4,025 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,512 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,319 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,552 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,395 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,425 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 20 | #3,326 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 28 | #2,581 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,484 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 38 | #2,154 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 42 | #1,953 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 49 | #1,674 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 45 | #1,725 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 55 | #1,512 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 71 | #1,289 | 0.04 |
| 1964 | 79 | #1,245 | 0.04 |
| 1963 | 67 | #1,359 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 73 | #1,300 | 0.04 |
| 1961 | 82 | #1,221 | 0.04 |
| 1960 | 56 | #1,483 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 66 | #1,322 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 73 | #1,249 | 0.04 |
| 1957 | 88 | #1,122 | 0.04 |
| 1956 | 108 | #973 | 0.05 |
| 1955 | 111 | #935 | 0.06 |
| 1954 | 117 | #889 | 0.06 |
| 1953 | 105 | #924 | 0.06 |
| 1952 | 83 | #1,037 | 0.04 |
| 1951 | 94 | #959 | 0.05 |
| 1950 | 124 | #780 | 0.07 |
| 1949 | 142 | #712 | 0.08 |
| 1948 | 132 | #736 | 0.08 |
| 1947 | 124 | #773 | 0.07 |
| 1946 | 126 | #721 | 0.08 |
| 1945 | 107 | #721 | 0.08 |
| 1944 | 113 | #709 | 0.09 |
| 1943 | 138 | #649 | 0.10 |
| 1942 | 144 | #626 | 0.11 |
| 1941 | 159 | #556 | 0.13 |
| 1940 | 141 | #587 | 0.12 |
| 1939 | 40 | #1,158 | 0.04 |
| 1938 | 31 | #1,339 | 0.03 |
| 1937 | 30 | #1,352 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,781 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Suellen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Suellen has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 61 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Suellen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Suellen, and how old are they?
2,380 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 71% of the 3,342 Americans ever recorded as Suellen. The median Suellen alive today is 71 years old; half are between 62 and 78.
The 2020 Census counted 3,034 people named Suellen (3,033 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,670 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 432 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,400 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 420 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 84 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 27 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 11 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Suellen born?
The states with the most babies named Suellen are New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania, with 47% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 276 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 246 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 211 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 188 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Indiana | 136 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Michigan | 122 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 91 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 70 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Massachusetts | 45 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 32 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Suellen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Suellen is most over-represented in Indiana: since 1936 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Suellen with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 4,145 babies since 1880, Suellen is the most given (81% 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 Suellen
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 Suellen and names like it
- Compare Suellen and SueellenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sSuellen peaked in 1941.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Suellen since 1910.
- The top names of 1941The year the most babies were named Suellen.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Suellen alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with SMost given first.