Susannah

girls:

7.7k births since 1882

#1862 (67th percentile)

overall:

7.7k births since 1882

#3085 (60th percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Susannah is the #3,085 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 7,651 recorded births since 1882. This represents the 60.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 60.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,862 (67.4% percentile) for all time with 7,651 births since 1882.

Susannah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1882 (first recorded for girls in 1882). Birth data for Susannah is available in 128 out of the 142 years between 1882 and 2023. 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, Susannah reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 19.5% percentile (ranked #606) with 97 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 97 births per million (ranked 19.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Susannah ranks #907 for girls (4.2% percentile) with 26 births per million, which is 26.4% of its peak share of births.

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

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Key Statistics

Total Births
7,651
Peak Births
152
Peak Year
1975
First Recorded
1882
Peak Percentile
19.5%
Current Percentile
4.2%
Peak Rank
#606
Current Rank
#907
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Susannah

Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Susannah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 68.3% confident that Susannah is pronounced as sue-ZA-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is sue-SA-nuh, at 19.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.

sue-ZA-nuh (3 syllables)
68.3% confidence
S UW0 Z AE1 N AH0
sue-SA-nuh (3 syllables)
Verified
19.5% confidence
S UW0 S AE1 N AH0
suh-ZA-nuh (3 syllables)
12.2% confidence
S AH0 Z AE1 N AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

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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 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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