Susana
Susana was given to 82 girls in 2025, #2,254 among girls’ names; 21,051 Americans have been recorded with it since 1881 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 19,000 Americans named Susana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 27 and 51.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Susana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Susana mean?
Wiktionary, Portuguese section
Susana is “a female given name, equivalent to English Susan or Susanna” Its etymology gives the sense “rose, or lily” (שׁוֹשַׁנָּה).
Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew שׁוֹשַׁנָּה (Šōšannā, “rose, or lily”), from Egyptian z:S:n-M9 (zšn).
/suˈzɐ̃.nɐ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Portuguese section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Susana?
#2,254 among girls’ names, 2025
Susana fell from #1,709 in 2015 to #2,254 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 69.5 to 51.0 per million.
537 babies in 1993, the peak
Susana peaked in 1993, when 537 girls were given it, #473 among girls’ names. The 82 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 82 | #2,254 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 79 | #2,343 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 83 | #2,256 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 100 | #1,972 | 0.06 |
| 2021 | 79 | #2,324 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 83 | #2,193 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 81 | #2,271 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 114 | #1,797 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 114 | #1,822 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 113 | #1,839 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (136)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 124 | #1,709 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 133 | #1,622 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 130 | #1,644 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 158 | #1,449 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 198 | #1,216 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 219 | #1,126 | 0.12 |
| 2009 | 223 | #1,142 | 0.12 |
| 2008 | 257 | #1,021 | 0.14 |
| 2007 | 267 | #999 | 0.14 |
| 2006 | 301 | #886 | 0.16 |
| 2005 | 293 | #867 | 0.16 |
| 2004 | 291 | #847 | 0.16 |
| 2003 | 276 | #877 | 0.15 |
| 2002 | 319 | #758 | 0.18 |
| 2001 | 298 | #794 | 0.17 |
| 2000 | 323 | #717 | 0.18 |
| 1999 | 341 | #670 | 0.19 |
| 1998 | 330 | #689 | 0.19 |
| 1997 | 358 | #628 | 0.21 |
| 1996 | 420 | #558 | 0.24 |
| 1995 | 407 | #568 | 0.23 |
| 1994 | 491 | #504 | 0.27 |
| 1993 | 537 | #473 | 0.30 |
| 1992 | 429 | #548 | 0.23 |
| 1991 | 405 | #574 | 0.22 |
| 1990 | 424 | #556 | 0.22 |
| 1989 | 428 | #535 | 0.23 |
| 1988 | 412 | #534 | 0.23 |
| 1987 | 379 | #532 | 0.22 |
| 1986 | 387 | #528 | 0.23 |
| 1985 | 374 | #531 | 0.22 |
| 1984 | 397 | #499 | 0.24 |
| 1983 | 389 | #502 | 0.23 |
| 1982 | 400 | #505 | 0.24 |
| 1981 | 472 | #457 | 0.28 |
| 1980 | 427 | #487 | 0.26 |
| 1979 | 427 | #476 | 0.27 |
| 1978 | 388 | #498 | 0.25 |
| 1977 | 361 | #517 | 0.24 |
| 1976 | 422 | #457 | 0.29 |
| 1975 | 373 | #491 | 0.26 |
| 1974 | 352 | #501 | 0.24 |
| 1973 | 321 | #525 | 0.22 |
| 1972 | 288 | #575 | 0.19 |
| 1971 | 275 | #617 | 0.17 |
| 1970 | 247 | #658 | 0.14 |
| 1969 | 200 | #712 | 0.12 |
| 1968 | 239 | #622 | 0.15 |
| 1967 | 197 | #698 | 0.12 |
| 1966 | 214 | #660 | 0.13 |
| 1965 | 189 | #724 | 0.11 |
| 1964 | 188 | #760 | 0.10 |
| 1963 | 193 | #740 | 0.10 |
| 1962 | 201 | #728 | 0.10 |
| 1961 | 183 | #778 | 0.09 |
| 1960 | 175 | #773 | 0.09 |
| 1959 | 188 | #743 | 0.09 |
| 1958 | 203 | #695 | 0.10 |
| 1957 | 165 | #785 | 0.08 |
| 1956 | 134 | #865 | 0.07 |
| 1955 | 108 | #951 | 0.06 |
| 1954 | 126 | #839 | 0.06 |
| 1953 | 104 | #929 | 0.06 |
| 1952 | 70 | #1,136 | 0.04 |
| 1951 | 70 | #1,114 | 0.04 |
| 1950 | 84 | #999 | 0.05 |
| 1949 | 71 | #1,067 | 0.04 |
| 1948 | 65 | #1,112 | 0.04 |
| 1947 | 46 | #1,372 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 54 | #1,175 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 38 | #1,307 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 44 | #1,198 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 30 | #1,551 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 23 | #1,798 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 28 | #1,497 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 18 | #1,954 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 29 | #1,397 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 25 | #1,541 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 33 | #1,275 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 29 | #1,374 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 25 | #1,510 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 24 | #1,546 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 24 | #1,547 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 38 | #1,174 | 0.04 |
| 1931 | 33 | #1,281 | 0.03 |
| 1930 | 40 | #1,195 | 0.04 |
| 1929 | 25 | #1,592 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 37 | #1,267 | 0.03 |
| 1927 | 49 | #1,096 | 0.04 |
| 1926 | 36 | #1,321 | 0.03 |
| 1925 | 24 | #1,785 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 48 | #1,136 | 0.04 |
| 1923 | 36 | #1,325 | 0.03 |
| 1922 | 19 | #2,094 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 21 | #1,977 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 19 | #2,067 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 27 | #1,556 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 21 | #1,876 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 33 | #1,280 | 0.03 |
| 1916 | 15 | #2,231 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 17 | #1,951 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 13 | #2,001 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 19 | #1,352 | 0.03 |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,711 | 0.02 |
| 1911 | 14 | #1,292 | 0.03 |
| 1910 | 17 | #1,103 | 0.04 |
| 1909 | 12 | #1,278 | 0.03 |
| 1908 | 9 | #1,529 | 0.03 |
| 1907 | 14 | #1,084 | 0.04 |
| 1905 | 9 | #1,401 | 0.03 |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,639 | 0.03 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,764 | 0.02 |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,647 | 0.03 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,901 | 0.02 |
| 1899 | 7 | #1,381 | 0.03 |
| 1898 | 9 | #1,249 | 0.03 |
| 1897 | 8 | #1,247 | 0.03 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,788 | 0.02 |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,569 | 0.03 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,680 | 0.02 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,625 | 0.02 |
| 1890 | 7 | #1,189 | 0.04 |
| 1889 | 10 | #896 | 0.06 |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,286 | 0.03 |
| 1886 | 9 | #820 | 0.06 |
| 1881 | 5 | #927 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Susana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Susana has been given almost only to girls: 52 boys in 136 years of records.
Girls and boys named Susana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Susana, and how old are they?
19,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 90% of the 21,051 Americans ever recorded as Susana. The median Susana alive today is 38 years old; half are between 27 and 51.
The 2020 Census counted 46,458 people named Susana (46,391 women and girls, 67 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 18,965 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 160 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,960 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 4,600 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 6,610 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,400 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,310 |
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 Susana born?
The states with the most babies named Susana are Texas, California and Florida, with 89% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 23 | #1,187 | 2.7× |
| California | 13 | #1,735 | 3.5× |
| Florida | 6 | #2,128 | 0.9× |
| New York | 5 | #2,393 | 0.6× |
Where Susana is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Susana is most over-represented in California: since 1910 it was given 3.5 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 Susana 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 76,918 babies since 1880, Susana is the second most given (27% of them). In 2025 it was given to 82 of their 416 babies (20%), again the second most given.
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 Susana
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 Susana and names like it
- Compare Susana and SusanneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sSusana peaked in 1993.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Susana since 1910.
- Portuguese namesWiktionary’s origin for Susana: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Susana.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Susana alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.