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Suann vs Suave

American parents have registered 751 Suanns since 1880, against 45 Suaves. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Suann against Suave, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Suann Suave

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 52 years in which either name was published, Suann for 47 years and Suave for 5 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Suann Suave
Total US births 75145
Most in one year 3717
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 61040
Median age today 6436
Peak year 19551988
Best rank 1,691st girls3,079th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19361988
Girls / boys 751 / 00 / 45

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Suanns alive today are over 64; half the Suaves are over 36. That is 28 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Suann and Suave.