Suzy
Suzy was given to 21 girls in 2025, #5,887 among girls’ names; 4,270 Americans have been recorded with it since 1913 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,590 Americans named Suzy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (84% of everyone recorded); the median is 61 years old and half are between 45 and 66.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Suzy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Suzy mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Suzy is “a diminutive of Susan and of related female given names.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Suzy?
#5,887 among girls’ names, 2025
Suzy rose from #7,229 in 2015 to #5,887 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 9.5 to 13.1 per million.
227 babies in 1962, the peak
Suzy peaked in 1962, when 227 girls were given it, #686 among girls’ names. The 21 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,887 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,909 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,925 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,612 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,378 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,187 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,670 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,977 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,402 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,377 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (97)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 17 | #7,229 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,265 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,812 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 22 | #6,086 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,385 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,953 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,414 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 19 | #7,034 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,793 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 18 | #7,107 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 17 | #7,103 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,459 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,941 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 16 | #7,001 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,786 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 11 | #9,085 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,848 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 8 | #11,004 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,197 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,349 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,910 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,818 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,396 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 28 | #3,853 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,187 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,251 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 30 | #3,462 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,154 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 27 | #3,406 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 31 | #3,046 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,831 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,316 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 35 | #2,588 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 39 | #2,488 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 41 | #2,403 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 43 | #2,304 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 53 | #1,974 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 38 | #2,384 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 57 | #1,799 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 40 | #2,169 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 37 | #2,272 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 43 | #1,994 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 47 | #1,829 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 58 | #1,591 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 61 | #1,584 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 75 | #1,406 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 78 | #1,275 | 0.05 |
| 1968 | 79 | #1,234 | 0.05 |
| 1967 | 108 | #983 | 0.07 |
| 1966 | 112 | #965 | 0.07 |
| 1965 | 131 | #875 | 0.07 |
| 1964 | 182 | #769 | 0.10 |
| 1963 | 199 | #727 | 0.10 |
| 1962 | 227 | #686 | 0.12 |
| 1961 | 170 | #804 | 0.08 |
| 1960 | 145 | #861 | 0.07 |
| 1959 | 162 | #807 | 0.08 |
| 1958 | 167 | #774 | 0.08 |
| 1957 | 86 | #1,142 | 0.04 |
| 1956 | 68 | #1,268 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 45 | #1,533 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 44 | #1,535 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 49 | #1,406 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 54 | #1,312 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 26 | #1,963 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 38 | #1,522 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 42 | #1,435 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 46 | #1,368 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 65 | #1,118 | 0.04 |
| 1946 | 67 | #1,040 | 0.04 |
| 1945 | 41 | #1,257 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 41 | #1,253 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 48 | #1,176 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 51 | #1,111 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 20 | #1,875 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 39 | #1,181 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 25 | #1,540 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 23 | #1,644 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 16 | #2,085 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 15 | #2,142 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 15 | #2,197 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,233 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,626 | under 0.01 |
| 1922 | 16 | #2,369 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,766 | under 0.01 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,915 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,643 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Suzy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Suzy has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 97 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Suzy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Suzy, and how old are they?
3,590 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 84% of the 4,270 Americans ever recorded as Suzy. The median Suzy alive today is 61 years old; half are between 45 and 66.
The 2020 Census counted 5,519 people named Suzy (5,497 women and girls, 22 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,675 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 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 | 152 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,530 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 974 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 402 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 290 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 241 |
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 Suzy born?
The states with the most babies named Suzy are California, Texas and New York, with 65% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 683 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Texas | 235 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 226 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 98 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 87 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 79 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 67 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Missouri | 29 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Colorado | 28 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 28 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Suzy is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Suzy is most over-represented in California: since 1913 it was given 1.7 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 Suzy 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 9,707 babies since 1880, Suzy is the most given (44% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 56 babies (38%), the second most given that year.
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 Suzy
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 Suzy and names like it
- Compare Suzy and SuzieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sSuzy peaked in 1962.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Suzy since 1910.
- The top names of 1962The year the most babies were named Suzy.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Suzy alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with SMost given first.