Susan

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)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Susan".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
1,122,984
Peak Births
47,418
Peak Year
1957
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
99.9%
Current Percentile
22.5%
Peak Rank
#2
Current Rank
#734
Female statistics
Total Births
2,542
Peak Births
97
Peak Year
1957
First Recorded
1897
Peak Percentile
14.0%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#218
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Susan

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Susan. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 86.4% confident that Susan is pronounced as SUE-zuhn. The next most likely pronunciation is SUE-suhn, at 13.6% confidence.

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SUE-zuhn (2 syllables)
Verified
86.4% confidence
S UW1 Z AH0 N
SUE-suhn (2 syllables)
13.6% confidence
S UW1 S AH0 N

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Susan. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Susan, please vote using the thumbs up button.

sue-ZAN (2 syllables)
10 names 254.2k births
S UW0 Z AE1 N
SUE-zan (2 syllables)
4 names 39k births
S UW1 Z AE0 N

About Pronunciation Data

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 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.