girls:
1.1M births since 1880
#8 (100th percentile)
boys:
2.5k births since 1897
#2507 (45th percentile)
overall:
1.1M births since 1880
#33 (100th percentile)
The name Susan is the #33 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,125,526 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 99.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 99.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #8 (99.9% percentile) for all time with 1,122,984 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #2,507 (45.3% percentile) for all time with 2,542 births since 1897.
Susan has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1897 for boys).
The name Susan has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Susan reached its peak popularity in 1957, achieving the 99.9% percentile (ranked #2) with 21,901 births per million. The name was most common in 1954, with 23,689 births per million (ranked 99.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1957, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Susan ranks #734 for girls (22.5% percentile) with 125 births per million, which is 0.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Susan reached its peak popularity in 1957, achieving the 14.0% percentile (ranked #566) with 44 births per million. The name was most common in 1957, with 44 births per million (ranked 14.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2017.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Susan".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Susan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 86.4% confident that Susan is pronounced as SUE-zuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SUE-suhn, at 13.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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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 UW1 Z 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.
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