girls:
20.8k births since 1881
#1005 (82nd percentile)
boys:
52 births since 1980
#4534 (1st percentile)
overall:
20.9k births since 1881
#1770 (77th percentile)
The name Susana is the #1,770 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 20,884 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 77.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 77.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,005 (82.4% percentile) for all time with 20,832 births since 1881. For boys, it ranks #4,534 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 52 births since 1980.
Susana first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (1881 for girls and 1980 for boys). Birth data for Susana is available in 134 out of the 143 years between 1881 and 2023 (134 years for girls and 9 years for boys). 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.
The name Susana has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Susana reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 51.0% percentile (ranked #424) with 272 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 272 births per million (ranked 51.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1996, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Susana ranks #870 for girls (8.1% percentile) with 47 births per million, which is 17.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Susana reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #752) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1981, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1990.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Susana".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Susana. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 32.7% confident that Susana is pronounced as sue-SAH-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is sue-ZA-nuh, at 24.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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