How rare is the name Susie?

29,902 people in the United States have the first name Susie, about 1 in 10,101. It ranks #1,253 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

SUSIE

#1,253

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
29,902
About
1 in 10,101
This common or more
73.1%
Who bears it

Of the 29,902 people named Susie, 52.1% reported their origin as White, 20% as Black and 14.8% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Susie peaked in 1919, when 1,481 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1919
Births that year
1,481
In 2025*
101 ▼93%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 86,067 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.

Susie by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #109. The largest share of babies named Susie, 32.8%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#1094,780
1890s#1116,548
1900s#1277,338
1910s#24211,591
1920s#31612,258
1930s#4007,982
1940s#4159,236
1950s#48110,315
1960s#6047,827
1970s#1,0372,976
1980s#1,5491,792
1990s#2,4431,164
2000s#3,640879
2010s#3,946858
2020s#3,893523
Before 190114.3%
Greatest Generation 1901–2732.8%
Silent Generation 1928–4517.5%
Baby boom 1946–6422.9%
Generation X 1965–806.8%
Millennials 1981–962.9%
Generation Z 1997–121.6%
2013 and later1.3%

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 Susie is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Susie has been most common in Mississippi (4.5×), Alabama (4.1×), and Georgia (3.3×), and least common in Idaho (0.12×).

62,745 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

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

Also a last name

As a last name, Susie ranks #89,231 of 156,621, with 223 people. See Susie as a last name

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