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Suzanne vs Suzzanne

American parents have registered 219,801 Suzannes since 1880, against 724 Suzzannes. Suzanne is still ahead, with 75 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Suzanne against Suzzanne, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Suzanne Suzzanne

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

Suzanne has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1994, when Suzanne had 424 and Suzzanne had 5.

Side by side

  Suzanne Suzzanne
Total US births 219,801724
Most in one year 6,86727
Babies in 2025 75under 5
Estimated living today 169,000600
Median age today 6362
Peak year 19621964
Best rank 65th girls2,348th girls
Rank in 2025 2,387thunranked
First recorded 18801939
Girls / boys 219,309 / 492724 / 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.

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