girls:
3.3k births since 1936
#2996 (48th percentile)
overall:
3.3k births since 1936
#4727 (39th percentile)
The name Suellen is the #4,727 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,342 recorded births since 1936. This represents the 38.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 38.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,996 (47.6% percentile) for all time with 3,342 births since 1936.
Suellen first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1936 (first recorded for girls in 1936). Birth data for Suellen is available in 61 out of the 85 years between 1936 and 2020. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Suellen reached its peak popularity in 1941, achieving the 24.8% percentile (ranked #443) with 128 births per million. The name was most common in 1941, with 128 births per million (ranked 24.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Suellen".
These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Suellen.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Suellen", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Suellen.
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Suellen. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.0% confident that Suellen is pronounced as sue-EH-luhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SUE-eh-luhn, at 10.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Suellen? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Suellen. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Suellen, please vote using the thumbs up button.
Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like S UW0 EH1 L AH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker