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Sookie

Girls' name

Shoshána

Sookie has been given to 63 babies in the U.S. since 2010. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2010, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Sookie, 2024

1 in 478,000

Sookie over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sookie: meaning, origin, and history

Shoshána

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sookie means

Sookie means “Shoshána”, associated with שׁוֹשַׁנָּה.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

A variant of the name Susan or Susannah, from Hebrew שׁוֹשַׁנָּה (“Shoshána”) meaning "rose" or "lily".

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Sookie (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Sookie is used in English.

Sookie comes through Hebrew שׁוֹשַׁנָּה.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Susan.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 63 girls were recorded with the name Sookie between 2010 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2010; its best national rank was #11,141 in 2010.

How common is Sookie?

Sookie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 478,000
7 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 231,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,009 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sookie sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sookie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sookies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sookie was born before 2013 — so the typical Sookie is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
88.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
63
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 88.9% of all recorded uses (56).

Is Sookie rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2010 (10)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#11,141
2010

Spellings of Sookie

Sookie is not the most common spelling — Sophie is, with 94.8% against Sookie's 0.04%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Sookie around the world

Where Sookie ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2010–2015
    #5,730
    in 2015
  • France
    2014–2015
    #7,664
    in 2015

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Sookie by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#11,141
2010
Peak year
2010
10 that year
First recorded
2010
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
63
Count in 2025
Under 5

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Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Sookie

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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