Suzan
Suzan was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 9,081 Americans have been recorded with it between 1898 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,110 Americans named Suzan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (78% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 59 and 73.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Suzan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Suzan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Suzan is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Suzan?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,395, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
484 babies in 1955, the peak
Suzan peaked in 1955, when 484 girls were given it, #396 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #17,395 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 5 | #17,335 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 8 | #12,118 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,402 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 8 | #12,021 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,324 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,472 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,771 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 7 | #14,177 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,775 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (106)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 6 | #16,283 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,704 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 15 | #8,169 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 10 | #11,101 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 18 | #7,182 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,834 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,425 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,952 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,324 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,782 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,729 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,424 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,354 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 27 | #4,547 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,176 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,847 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,551 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,594 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,440 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,820 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 26 | #4,097 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,172 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 33 | #3,399 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,627 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 37 | #3,062 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 32 | #3,312 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 29 | #3,381 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 23 | #3,843 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 29 | #3,194 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 30 | #3,074 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 32 | #2,837 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 41 | #2,351 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 42 | #2,364 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,234 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 46 | #2,212 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 46 | #2,182 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 42 | #2,233 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 46 | #2,089 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 47 | #1,932 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 52 | #1,803 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 65 | #1,518 | 0.04 |
| 1973 | 72 | #1,386 | 0.05 |
| 1972 | 97 | #1,140 | 0.06 |
| 1971 | 104 | #1,131 | 0.06 |
| 1970 | 87 | #1,269 | 0.05 |
| 1969 | 118 | #999 | 0.07 |
| 1968 | 155 | #816 | 0.09 |
| 1967 | 141 | #854 | 0.09 |
| 1966 | 157 | #788 | 0.09 |
| 1965 | 193 | #712 | 0.11 |
| 1964 | 231 | #671 | 0.12 |
| 1963 | 251 | #639 | 0.13 |
| 1962 | 241 | #654 | 0.12 |
| 1961 | 242 | #662 | 0.12 |
| 1960 | 289 | #582 | 0.14 |
| 1959 | 331 | #532 | 0.16 |
| 1958 | 356 | #512 | 0.18 |
| 1957 | 359 | #500 | 0.18 |
| 1956 | 419 | #448 | 0.21 |
| 1955 | 484 | #396 | 0.25 |
| 1954 | 462 | #401 | 0.24 |
| 1953 | 369 | #448 | 0.20 |
| 1952 | 300 | #487 | 0.16 |
| 1951 | 242 | #540 | 0.13 |
| 1950 | 249 | #515 | 0.15 |
| 1949 | 263 | #500 | 0.15 |
| 1948 | 263 | #505 | 0.15 |
| 1947 | 241 | #543 | 0.14 |
| 1946 | 232 | #518 | 0.15 |
| 1945 | 162 | #576 | 0.12 |
| 1944 | 145 | #611 | 0.11 |
| 1943 | 122 | #689 | 0.09 |
| 1942 | 103 | #746 | 0.08 |
| 1941 | 76 | #837 | 0.06 |
| 1940 | 46 | #1,078 | 0.04 |
| 1939 | 47 | #1,051 | 0.04 |
| 1938 | 38 | #1,197 | 0.03 |
| 1937 | 32 | #1,299 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 15 | #2,141 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 14 | #2,292 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 19 | #1,828 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,669 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,352 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,456 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,309 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,503 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,711 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 12 | #2,843 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,899 | under 0.01 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,387 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,330 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,400 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,665 | under 0.01 |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,466 | under 0.01 |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,235 | 0.01 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,938 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Suzan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Suzan has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 106 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Suzan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Suzan, and how old are they?
7,110 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 78% of the 9,081 Americans ever recorded as Suzan. The median Suzan alive today is 68 years old; half are between 59 and 73.
The 2020 Census counted 10,523 people named Suzan (10,508 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,663 born in the U.S. The Census count is 37% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Suzan rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 398 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4,530 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,350 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 454 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 274 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 105 |
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 Suzan born?
The states with the most babies named Suzan are California, New York and Texas, with 37% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 998 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New York | 688 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 555 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 504 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 431 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 376 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 369 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 195 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 192 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Massachusetts | 159 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Suzan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Suzan is most over-represented in California: since 1910 it was given 1.3 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 Suzan 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 13,115 babies since 1880, Suzan is the most given (69% 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 Suzan
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 Suzan and names like it
- Compare Suzan and SuzannBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sSuzan peaked in 1955.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Suzan since 1910.
- The top names of 1955The year the most babies were named Suzan.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Suzan alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with SMost given first.