Susan Girl
How popular is Susan?
#1,085 girl name in 2025
222 baby girls were named Susan in the US in 2025, making it the 1085th most popular girl name.
Susan popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #1,085 for girls (▲ 35 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 222 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-26% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #911 in 2015, #972 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1955 (47,418 girls) |
| Highest rank | #2 in 1957 (4 years at that rank) |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.2% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Susan counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Susan family of names ranked #794 for girls in 2025 (#811 the year before), with 311 babies in all.
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Susan is most popular
Babies named Susan per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Pennsylvania: 0.6 per 1,000 (145 girls)
- Ohio: 0.3 per 1,000 (70 girls)
- Indiana: 0.3 per 1,000 (40 girls)
- Wisconsin: 0.3 per 1,000 (26 girls)
- Michigan: 0.2 per 1,000 (40 girls)
Susan by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 3,231 | #79 |
| 1890s | 3,612 | #106 |
| 1900s | 3,447 | #144 |
| 1910s | 6,814 | #167 |
| 1920s | 8,408 | #210 |
| 1930s | 21,028 | #44 |
| 1940s | 212,016 | #5 |
| 1950s | 437,774 | #2 |
| 1960s | 287,666 | #2 |
| 1970s | 88,308 | #15 |
| 1980s | 30,549 | #62 |
| 1990s | 10,893 | #172 |
| 2000s | 5,323 | #409 |
| 2010s | 3,051 | #765 |
| 2020s | 1,361 | #972 |
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Questions
- Is Susan a boy or girl name?
- Susan is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Susan were girls.
- How popular is the name Susan?
- 222 baby girls were named Susan in the US in 2025, making it the 1085th most popular girl name.
- When was Susan most popular?
- Susan peaked in 1955, when 47,418 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #2, held for 4 years starting in 1957.
- How many people are named Susan?
- 1,126,022 babies have been named Susan in the US since 1880. We estimate about 887,930 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 68.
- Where is Susan most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Susan was most common in Pennsylvania, at 0.6 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.