girls:
219.2k births since 1880
#182 (97th percentile)
boys:
492 births since 1935
#4094 (11th percentile)
overall:
219.6k births since 1880
#360 (95th percentile)
The name Suzanne is the #360 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 219,648 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 95.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 95.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #182 (96.8% percentile) for all time with 219,156 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,094 (10.7% percentile) for all time with 492 births since 1935.
Suzanne has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1935 for boys). Birth data for Suzanne is available in 143 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (143 years for girls and 51 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 Suzanne has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Suzanne reached its peak popularity in 1947, achieving the 92.4% percentile (ranked #53) with 3,428 births per million. The name was most common in 1946, with 3,688 births per million (ranked 92.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1966, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Suzanne ranks #889 for girls (6.1% percentile) with 36 births per million, which is 1.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Suzanne reached its peak popularity in 1943, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #557) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1943, with 12 births per million (ranked 2.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Suzanne".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Suzanne. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Suzanne is pronounced as sue-ZAN, which has 2 syllables.
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