Susie
Feminine · “lily”
Susie is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 85,789 girls against 278 boys since 1880.
Susie is Susan made affectionate, and Susan goes back to a flower — the Hebrew shoshannah, one of the oldest botanical names still in daily use anywhere in the world.
How old is the name Susie?
Susie was already in use when US birth records began in 1880 — it is at least 145 years old. The typical Susie alive today was born around 1930, making them about 95 years old. About 32,000 people named Susie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Susie most popular?
Susie peaked in 1883, reaching #67 nationally. Today it ranks #1911, 1,844 places below that high. See the whole 1883 chart.
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Where it comes from
From shoshannah to Susie
The story of Susie
Susanna appears in the Greek text of Daniel in a story about a woman falsely accused and vindicated by cross-examination — a favorite subject for painters. English used Susan heavily from the eighteenth century, and Susie and Suky were its ordinary pet forms. American families registered Susie outright in the nineteenth century, and it stood in the top fifty for girls in the 1880s, with a second rise in the 1950s.
Meaningscholars disagree
lily
From the Hebrew shoshannah. It is usually translated 'lily', but the word may originally have meant the lotus, and it is connected to a Semitic root for 'six', probably from the number of petals. Which flower was meant is not fully settled; that a flower was meant is.
How the name formed
- shoshannah
- Susanna
- Susan
- Susie
Related forms: Shoshana · Suzette · Suzy · Susi
Pronouncing Susie
SOO-zee
Two syllables, stress on the first. Susie, Suzy and Susi are said identically.
Nicknames for Susie
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1880
- Most girls named
- 19181,388 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #67reached in 1883
- Change vs 2022
- +20.2%101 in 2025, from 84
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Susie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Shoshana in Hebrew — related form
- Suzette in French — related form
- Suzy in English — spelling variant
- Susi in German — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Pennsylvania, California, Texas.
Susies among us
people named Susie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 15,914 born in 2025 was named Susie
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Susie
- #1911
- Susie on the 2025 chart
- #830
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Susie went to 101 girls in 2025, but Suzie is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 130, which makes it the 830th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,081 places above the chart.
- Susie101
- Suzie29
About 1 girl in 12,364 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 15,914 for Susie itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
Fashion outlook
Susie sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Susie is headed
Susie should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Susie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Susie in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The botanical meaning is unusually vivid for a name this old.
- Susan and Susanna are both available as formal forms with very deep records.
- Warm and immediately easy for a child to say and spell.
- Several spellings are established and none is dominant.
- As a diminutive it stays informal unless Susan is on the certificate.
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Feminine · #1911 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Susies are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 32,000 people named Susie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Susie?
- Susie is the most-used spelling in US records — 101 of the 130 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Suzie.
- How popular is the name Susie in 2025?
- Susie ranks #1911 among US girl names in 2025, with 101 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Susie?
- About 1 in every 15,914 US girls born in 2025 was named Susie — 101 in all.
- Will my child share the name Susie with classmates?
- Susie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Susie
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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