Suzannah
Suzannah was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,807 among girls’ names; 1,789 Americans have been recorded with it since 1940 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,700 Americans named Suzannah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 25 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Suzannah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Suzannah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Suzannah is “a female given name from Hebrew, variant of Susanna.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Suzannah?
#8,807 among girls’ names, 2025
Suzannah fell from #6,948 in 2015 to #8,807 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 10.1 to 7.5 per million.
53 babies in 1991, the peak
Suzannah peaked in 1991, when 53 girls were given it, #2,411 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,807 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 8 | #12,034 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,230 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,603 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,473 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,465 | 6.8 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,647 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,474 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,796 | 8.7 |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,165 | 11.9 |
Every recorded year (79)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #6,948 | 10.1 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,954 | 10.1 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,227 | 12.0 |
| 2012 | 13 | #9,054 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,816 | 10.8 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,758 | 13.5 |
| 2009 | 23 | #6,064 | 12.5 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,706 | 9.0 |
| 2007 | 12 | #10,060 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,936 | 15.3 |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,686 | 15.7 |
| 2004 | 28 | #4,799 | 15.2 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,772 | 11.5 |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,744 | 14.5 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,988 | 13.3 |
| 2000 | 40 | #3,389 | 22.0 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,186 | 11.8 |
| 1998 | 52 | #2,643 | 29.4 |
| 1997 | 46 | #2,725 | 26.4 |
| 1996 | 44 | #2,787 | 25.1 |
| 1995 | 39 | #3,008 | 22.2 |
| 1994 | 33 | #3,431 | 18.5 |
| 1993 | 34 | #3,338 | 18.8 |
| 1992 | 43 | #2,818 | 23.3 |
| 1991 | 53 | #2,411 | 28.3 |
| 1990 | 44 | #2,684 | 23.2 |
| 1989 | 39 | #2,864 | 21.2 |
| 1988 | 33 | #3,082 | 18.5 |
| 1987 | 38 | #2,647 | 21.9 |
| 1986 | 26 | #3,442 | 15.2 |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,830 | 12.8 |
| 1984 | 27 | #3,222 | 16.0 |
| 1983 | 30 | #2,899 | 18.0 |
| 1982 | 28 | #3,161 | 16.5 |
| 1981 | 29 | #3,056 | 17.4 |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,308 | 15.7 |
| 1979 | 43 | #2,270 | 26.8 |
| 1978 | 31 | #2,732 | 20.2 |
| 1977 | 35 | #2,509 | 22.8 |
| 1976 | 32 | #2,534 | 21.8 |
| 1975 | 41 | #2,131 | 28.1 |
| 1974 | 30 | #2,552 | 20.4 |
| 1973 | 34 | #2,298 | 23.3 |
| 1972 | 28 | #2,582 | 18.4 |
| 1971 | 37 | #2,210 | 22.2 |
| 1970 | 24 | #2,926 | 13.7 |
| 1969 | 32 | #2,290 | 19.0 |
| 1968 | 23 | #2,698 | 14.0 |
| 1967 | 22 | #2,696 | 13.3 |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,169 | 6.5 |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,174 | 6.2 |
| 1964 | 20 | #2,900 | 10.6 |
| 1963 | 18 | #3,048 | 9.3 |
| 1962 | 16 | #3,278 | 8.1 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,504 | 5.0 |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,183 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,263 | 4.9 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,848 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,908 | 2.4 |
| 1955 | 10 | #4,025 | 5.1 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,235 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,974 | 3.7 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,978 | 5.0 |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,178 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,981 | 5.1 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,952 | 5.1 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,295 | 3.6 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,701 | 5.9 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,823 | 6.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Suzannah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Suzannah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 79 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Suzannah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Suzannah, and how old are they?
1,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,789 Americans ever recorded as Suzannah. The median Suzannah alive today is 36 years old; half are between 25 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 1,669 people named Suzannah (1,667 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,663 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 9 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 120 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 429 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 547 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 419 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 172 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 232,462 babies since 1880, Suzannah is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 159 babies (7.5%), again the third 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 Suzannah
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 Suzannah and names like it
- Compare Suzannah and SuzanneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sSuzannah peaked in 1991.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Suzannah since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Suzannah.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Suzannah alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.