Suzan vs Suzie
American parents have registered 9,081 Suzans since 1880, against 3,984 Suzies. But in 2025 it was Suzie that was commoner, 29 babies to fewer than five.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Suzan Suzie
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 112 years in which either name was published, Suzan for 76 years and Suzie for 36 years. The lead changed hands 20 times.
- 1912–1917 Suzie ahead
- 1918–1921 Suzan ahead
- 1922–1924 Suzie ahead
- 1925–2001 Suzan ahead, apart from 3 short spells
- 2002–2025 Suzie ahead, apart from 2 short spells
11 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Suzan | Suzie | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 9,081 | 3,984 |
| Most in one year | 484 | 175 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 29 |
| Estimated living today | 7,200 | 3,300 |
| Median age today | 67 | 58 |
| Peak year | 1955 | 1962 |
| Best rank | 397th girls | 784th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 4,661st |
| First recorded | 1898 | 1897 |
| Girls / boys | 9,081 / 0 | 3,984 / 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 Suzans alive today are over 67; half the Suzies are over 58. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Suzan Michigan (1.9×), California (1.6×), Washington (1.6×)
- Suzie California (4.9×), Texas (2.2×), Washington (2.0×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
Both names abroad
Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.
| Country | Suzan | Suzie |
|---|---|---|
| France | 490 | 4,500 |
| Belgium | 353 | 293 |
| England and Wales | 90 | 420 |
| Scotland | 3 | 12 |
| Poland | 10 | 4 |
Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Suzan and Suzie.