Susi
Susi was last recorded in 2017, when 6 babies were given it; 392 Americans have been recorded with it between 1945 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Susi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Susi mean?
Wiktionary, German section
Susi is “a diminutive of the female given name Susanne”
Meaning: Wiktionary, German section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Susi?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,712, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
25 babies in 1962, the peak
Susi peaked in 1962, when 25 girls were given it, #2,454 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 6 | #15,712 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,566 | 2.8 |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,370 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,876 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,498 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,268 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,775 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,626 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,662 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,306 | 2.7 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 7 | #11,357 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 8 | #10,071 | 4.2 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,622 | 2.8 |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,263 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,721 | 5.9 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,723 | 6.0 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,388 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 5 | #10,029 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,288 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,450 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,196 | 3.6 |
| 1969 | 10 | #5,012 | 5.9 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,581 | 4.9 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,267 | 6.7 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,446 | 5.9 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,786 | 5.1 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,598 | 5.3 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,501 | 5.2 |
| 1962 | 25 | #2,454 | 12.7 |
| 1961 | 16 | #3,304 | 7.9 |
| 1960 | 22 | #2,640 | 10.9 |
| 1959 | 24 | #2,388 | 11.9 |
| 1958 | 15 | #3,213 | 7.5 |
| 1957 | 16 | #3,018 | 7.8 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,785 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,694 | 4.1 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,973 | 3.7 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,299 | 2.7 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,235 | 3.5 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,586 | 5.8 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,884 | 7.9 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,406 | 6.4 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,495 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Susi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Susi has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Susi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Susi, and how old are they?
An estimated 340 Americans named Susi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 61 years old and half are between 41 and 67. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 909 people named Susi (905 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 356 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Susi 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 234,603 babies since 1880, Susi is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 136 babies recorded by SSA was a Susi (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Susi
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 Susi and names like it
- Compare Susi and SueBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sSusi peaked in 1962.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Susi since 1910.
- German namesWiktionary’s origin for Susi: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1962The year the most babies were named Susi.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Susi alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with SMost given first.