first name
SUE
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 99,611 people named Sue, 86.8% reported their origin as White, 6.6% as Asian or Pacific Islander and 2.4% as Black. 99.3% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Sue peaked in 1947, when 5,318 babies got the name.
At least 145,055 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Sue by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1940s, when it ranked #143. The largest share of babies named Sue, 50.7%, were born during the baby boom (1946–1964).
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Sue is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Sue has been most common in Kentucky (2.1×), Indiana (2.1×), and West Virginia (1.9×), and least common in Nevada (0.19×).
137,605 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Spelled almost the same
7 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Sue, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Sue ranks #14,939 of 156,621, with 1,901 people. See Sue as a last name
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