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Suzann vs Suzette

American parents have registered 16,968 Suzettes since 1880, against 4,034 Suzanns. Suzette is still ahead, with 29 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Suzann against Suzette, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Suzann Suzette

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 109 years in which either name was published, Suzette for 93 years and Suzann for 16 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Suzann Suzette
Total US births 4,03416,968
Most in one year 129719
Babies in 2025 under 529
Estimated living today 3,10015,000
Median age today 6558
Peak year 19471964
Best rank 755th girls352nd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked4,661st
First recorded 19161912
Girls / boys 4,034 / 016,963 / 5

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 Suzanns alive today are over 65; half the Suzettes are over 58. That is 7 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: Suzann and Suzette.