Suzie
Feminine · “lily”
Suzie shortens Susanna, and the Hebrew word behind it — shoshannah, a lily — was borrowed from Egyptian.
How old is the name Suzie?
Suzie first appears in US birth records in 1897 — 128 years ago. The typical Suzie alive today was born around 1964, making them about 61 years old. About 3,400 people named Suzie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Suzie most popular?
Suzie peaked in 1962, reaching #784 nationally. Today it ranks #4661, 3,877 places below that high. See the whole 1962 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Suzie
Ours, offered as ours. The Egyptian word for the lotus traveled into Hebrew as shoshan, into Greek as souson, and eventually into every European language as Susan, Suzanne, Zsuzsanna and Shoshana. The lotus mattered enormously in Egypt — it closed at night and opened at dawn, so it stood for the sun and for rebirth. A very common English name is a four-thousand-year-old Egyptian flower.
Meaning
lily; or lotus
From Hebrew shoshannah, a lily; the word is generally traced to Egyptian sšn, the lotus. Whether the flower meant is the lily, the lotus or the water lily has been argued, but the borrowing itself is well established.
Pronouncing Suzie
SOO-zee
Two syllables, first stressed. Suzie and Susie are said identically.
Nicknames for Suzie
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
- 1897
- Most girls named
- 1962175 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #784reached in 1962
- Change vs 2023
- −23.7%29 in 2025, from 38
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.
Suzie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Susie in English — spelling variant
- Shoshana in Hebrew — related form
- Suzanne in French — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California.
Suzies among us
people named Suzie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 55,423 born in 2025 was named Suzie
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Suzie
- #4661
- Suzie on the 2025 chart
- #830
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Suzie went to 29 girls in 2025, but Susie 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 — 3,831 places above the chart.
- Susie101
- Suzie29
About 1 girl in 12,364 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 55,423 for Suzie 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 Afton test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Suzie's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Afton climbed just as high around 1917, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Afton's path sketches the road Suzie is walking now.
Suzie 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 Suzie is headed
Suzie 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.
Suzie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Suzie in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning with a genuinely ancient borrowing behind it.
- Susanna and Suzanne both stand behind it as fuller formal options.
- Read correctly on sight by every English speaker.
- Susie is the more common spelling and both will be written for her.
- It reads as a nickname, which may matter on a formal document.
- It is strongly associated with one mid-century American generation.
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Frequently asked
- How many Suzies are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,400 people named Suzie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Suzie?
- Suzie is one of 2 recorded spellings. Susie is the more common one — 101 births in 2025 against 29 for Suzie.
- How popular is the name Suzie in 2025?
- Suzie ranks #4661 among US girl names in 2025, with 29 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Suzie?
- About 1 in every 55,423 US girls born in 2025 was named Suzie — 29 in all.
- Will my child share the name Suzie with classmates?
- Suzie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Suzie
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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