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Sueann vs Suellyn

American parents have registered 2,152 Sueanns since 1880, against 291 Suellyns. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sueann against Suellyn, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sueann Suellyn

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

Sueann has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1930 to 2019. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1943, when Sueann had 27 and Suellyn had 22.

Side by side

  Sueann Suellyn
Total US births 2,152291
Most in one year 7022
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 1,800210
Median age today 5873
Peak year 19671943
Best rank 1,299th girls1,834th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19301941
Girls / boys 2,152 / 0291 / 0

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 Suellyns alive today are over 73; half the Sueanns are over 58. That is 15 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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