How rare is the name Susannah?

7,095 people in the United States have the first name Susannah, about 1 in 42,570. It ranks #3,103 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

SUSANNAH

#3,103

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
7,095
About
1 in 42,570
This common or more
81.7%
Who bears it

Of the 7,095 people named Susannah, 87.1% reported their origin as White, 4.6% as Hispanic or Latino and 3.1% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Susannah peaked in 1975, when 152 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18822025
Peak year
1975
Births that year
152
In 2025*
70 ▼54%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 7,784 babies have been given the name since 1882. 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.

Susannah by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #1,591. The largest share of babies named Susannah, 26.2%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1880s#1,96034
1890s#2,57031
1900s#3,08033
1910s#4,86174
1920s#5,37399
1930s#3,916137
1940s#2,963253
1950s#3,070320
1960s#2,078758
1970s#1,5911,422
1980s#1,9431,226
1990s#2,3291,242
2000s#3,448953
2010s#4,004831
2020s#4,838371
Before 19010.9%
Greatest Generation 1901–272.3%
Silent Generation 1928–453.6%
Baby boom 1946–649%
Generation X 1965–8026.2%
Millennials 1981–9626.2%
Generation Z 1997–1219.6%
2013 and later12.1%

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 Susannah is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Susannah has been most common in Virginia (3.1×), Massachusetts (2.8×), and Georgia (2×), and least common in New Jersey (0.38×).

3,399 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.

Either side of Susannah

#3,101 Juli · 7,103#3,101 Lottie · 7,103#3,104 Kaylen · 7,086#3,105 Khadija · 7,084

Spelled almost the same

7 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Susannah, most common first.

#949 Susana · 46,458#1,392 Susanne · 25,061#1,674 Susanna · 18,587#2,685 Suzanna · 8,750#5,938 Susann · 2,775#8,643 Suzannah · 1,669#46,361 Susanah · 144

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