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Suzanne

About 219,801 American babies have been named Suzanne since 1880, most of them around 1962. In 2025 it ranked 2,387th. About 169,000 Suzannes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 63.

Popularity, 1880–2025

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

girls named Suzanne boys named Suzanne

By the numbers

Total US births
219,801
Estimated living today
169,000
Median age today
63
Peak year
1962
Best rank
65th
Rank in 2025
2,387th
First recorded
1880
Girls / boys
219,309 / 492

How old the living Suzannes are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 219,801 babies given the name since 1880, about 169,000 are alive — 77 in every hundred. Roughly 1,300 of them are children and 74,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1962 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin French

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Suzannes

People named Suzanne with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Suzanne is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Suzanne is most concentrated in Rhode Island (2.2×), New Hampshire (1.8×), Massachusetts (1.8×), Vermont (1.8×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1962

The most popular girls’ names the year Suzanne peaked:

All the names of 1962

Suzanne elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France girls Suzanne 293,030 4th
New Zealand girls Suzanne 4,705 22nd
Ireland girls Suzanne 4,499 43rd
Scotland girls Suzanne 3,720 43rd
Belgium girls Suzanne 878 179th
England and Wales girls Suzanne 601 364th
Norway girls Suzanne 297 263rd
Poland girls Suzanne 105 birth registrations 314th
France boys Suzanne 65 837th
Switzerland girls Suzanne 62 925th
Northern Ireland girls Suzanne 43 194th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Suzanne: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German girls Switzerland Suzanne 7 0.001% 865th
French girls Switzerland Suzanne 54 0.012% 359th
Italian girls Switzerland Suzanne 1 0.002% 161st

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Suzanne is most concentrated in Vaud, where 0.01% of children were given it – 25 of them.

Suzanne: rank by region

In 2025, Suzanne was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Suzanne 225 24
Wallonia Suzanne 162 16
Brussels Suzanne 93 11

In 2023, Suzanne was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.

Region Spelling Place Children
Podkarpackie Suzanne 160 2

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Suzanne appears in the lists for Province of West Flanders (77th), Brussels-Capital Region (93rd) and Province of Hainaut (117th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Suzanne among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
the Netherlands girls Suzanne 16,093 22,794
Finland girls Suzanne 62 151
the Netherlands boys Suzanne 136

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Suzanne lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 264 women called Suzanne were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Alicante/Alacant Suzanne 52 0.051 1,317
Málaga Suzanne 42 0.046 1,246
Balears, Illes Suzanne 20 0.032 1,778
Almería Suzanne 10 0.027 1,935
Castellón/Castelló Suzanne 5 0.016 2,669
Cantabria Suzanne 5 0.016 2,053

Listed in 12 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 40 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

Suzanne against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.