Susy
Feminine · “lily”
Six spellings compete for this sound and Susy is the leanest: no z, no ie, no doubled letter, four characters and done. The flower underneath is not quite settled — shoshannah covers more than one plant, and translators have made it a lily, a lotus and a rose depending on where they thought the story was set.
How old is the name Susy?
Susy first appears in US birth records in 1940 — 85 years ago. The typical Susy alive today was born around 1975, making them about 50 years old. About 1,100 people named Susy are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Susy most popular?
Susy peaked in 1962, reaching #2073 nationally. Today it ranks #13208, 11,135 places below that high. See the whole 1962 chart.
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Where it comes from
From shoshannah to Susy
The story of Susy
Susanna produced an unusual number of short forms in English — Sue, Susie, Suzy, Susy, Suki and Sukey among them — and several became independent names. Sukey is the interesting one: it comes from Suke, an older short form, by the same medieval habit of adding a diminutive ending that gave Nelly and Molly. Susy is the plainest of the modern set and appears in American records from 1940, peaking in the early 1960s alongside Susan's own peak.
Meaningscholars disagree
lily, or lotus
The Hebrew shoshannah names a flower, and which one is genuinely argued. Lily is the traditional English rendering; the lotus has strong support, since the word appears to be borrowed from Egyptian, where the lotus mattered enormously; and a rose is offered in some older translations. The flower is certain and the species is not.
How the name formed
- shoshannah
- Susanna
- Susan
- Susy
Related forms: Shoshana · Susi · Susi
Pronouncing Susy
SOO-zee
Two syllables, stress on the first, with the s in the middle said as a z — which is what English does with a single s between vowels. Susy, Susie, Suzy and Suzie are said identically.
Nicknames for Susy
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
- 1940
- Most girls named
- 196232 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2073reached in 1962
- Change vs 2023
- −25.0%6 in 2025, from 8
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.
Susy in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Shoshana in Hebrew — related form
- Susi in Spanish — spelling variant
- Susi in German — spelling variant
Susys among us
people named Susy are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 267,878 born in 2025 was named Susy
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Susy
- #13208
- Susy on the 2025 chart
- #933
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Susy went to 6 girls in 2025, but Suzy is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 27, which makes it the 933rd most-given girls’ name of the year — 12,275 places above the chart.
- Suzy21
- Susy6
About 1 girl in 59,528 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 267,878 for Susy 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
The Willadene test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Susy's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Willadene climbed just as high around 1926, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Willadene's path sketches the road Susy is walking now.
Susy 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
Susy beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Susy in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It is the shortest spelling of a sound usually written with five or six letters.
- Sue and Susanna are both available and belong to different registers.
- It is warm and short without being childish.
- Susie and Suzy are both commoner and will be written instead.
- As a given name it reads as a nickname, and a woman will be asked what it is short for.
- It belongs to a mid-century generation and carries that flavor.
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Frequently asked
- How many Susys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Susy are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Susy?
- Susy is one of 2 recorded spellings. Suzy is the more common one — 21 births in 2025 against 6 for Susy.
- How popular is the name Susy in 2025?
- Susy ranks #13208 among US girl names in 2025, with 6 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Susy?
- About 1 in every 267,878 US girls born in 2025 was named Susy — 6 in all.
- Will my child share the name Susy with classmates?
- Susy will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Susy
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