girls:
19.6k births since 1880
#1044 (82nd percentile)
overall:
19.6k births since 1880
#1834 (76th percentile)
The name Susanna is the #1,834 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 19,603 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 76.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 76.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,044 (81.7% percentile) for all time with 19,603 births since 1880.
Susanna has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
For girls, Susanna reached its peak popularity in 1958, achieving the 36.0% percentile (ranked #490) with 150 births per million. The name was most common in 1886, with 267 births per million (ranked 13.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Susanna ranks #776 for girls (18.1% percentile) with 101 births per million, which is 37.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Susanna".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Susanna", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 7 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Susana" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Susana..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Susanna. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.2% confident that Susanna is pronounced as sue-ZA-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SUE-ZA-nuh, at 9.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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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 Z AE1 N AH0) 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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