How rare is the name Suzette?

16,531 people in the United States have the first name Suzette, about 1 in 18,271. It ranks #1,795 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

SUZETTE

#1,795

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
16,531
About
1 in 18,271
This common or more
77%
Who bears it

Of the 16,531 people named Suzette, 56.3% reported their origin as White, 18.3% as Black and 16.7% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Suzette peaked in 1964, when 719 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19122025
Peak year
1964
Births that year
719
In 2025*
29 ▼96%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 16,968 babies have been given the name since 1912. 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.

Suzette by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1960s, when it ranked #681. The largest share of babies named Suzette, 42.7%, were born during the baby boom (1946–1964).

1910s#6,65237
1920s#6,04380
1930s#3,157194
1940s#1,1681,374
1950s#9223,128
1960s#6816,160
1970s#1,0932,722
1980s#2,1511,028
1990s#2,746956
2000s#4,409675
2010s#6,437414
2020s#7,379200
Greatest Generation 1901–270.6%
Silent Generation 1928–452.9%
Baby boom 1946–6442.7%
Generation X 1965–8035.3%
Millennials 1981–969.4%
Generation Z 1997–126.3%
2013 and later2.9%

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 Suzette is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Suzette has been most common in Hawaii (3.3×), Louisiana (2.2×), and California (1.9×), and least common in Oklahoma (0.18×).

13,445 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

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

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