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Suellen

Girls' name

Blend of Sue and Ellen

Suellen has been given to 3,342 babies in the U.S. since 1936. 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 1941, with 159 recorded.

Babies named Suellen, 2020

1 in 557,000

Suellen over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Suellen: meaning, origin, and history

Blend of Sue and Ellen

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Suellen means

Suellen is a blend of Sue and Ellen.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Blend of Sue + Ellen. Abbreviation of Sue-Ellen/Sue Ellen.

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Suellen is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sue and Ellen.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,342 girls were recorded with the name Suellen between 1936 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 159 in 1941; its best national rank was #556 in 1941.

How common is Suellen?

Suellen had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,313 births
Among girls only
1 in 269,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,120 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Suellen 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 2020 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 386,120 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Suellen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Suellens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Suellen was born before 1952 — so the typical Suellen is around 73 today.

Median birth year
1952
About 73 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
39.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,910
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1940s — 39.7% of all recorded uses (1,326).

Is Suellen 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 1941 (159)
Years since peak
84
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#556
1941

Spellings of Suellen

Suellen is not the most common spelling — Ellen is, with 74.7% against Suellen's 0.91%.

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.

Where Suellen is used

Across 1910–2025, Suellen was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 78,752 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Indiana1 in 25,000
  2. 2Ohio1 in 33,333
  3. 3Illinois1 in 50,000
  4. 4Michigan1 in 50,000
  5. 5New York1 in 50,000
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
  7. 7California1 in 100,000
  8. 8Georgia1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Suellen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Suellen around the world

Where Suellen 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.

  • Ireland
    1979–1979
    #467
    in 1979
  • France
    1981–1983
    #2,844
    in 1983
  • South Australia
    1944–1982
    #366
    in 1982

Popularity data from Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Notable people named Suellen

People whose public names include Suellen, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Suellen in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Suellen. Linked forms have their own page here.

Suelen

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Suellen 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
—
Best rank ever
#556
1941
Peak year
1941
159 that year
First recorded
1936
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
3,342
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Suellen

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

SueellenJoellenMagdalenJaylenSueannMarlenBraylenKaylenHellenKellenTaylenAshlenHaylenSueanneMaylenRaylenAyelenKalenMailenCaylenAylenSuellynCallenSuetta

Names with a curve like Suellen

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Suellen, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

SharenGlyndaPaulettaLaraineSheronSusannDianKarylKarrenGeorgeannKaronSherron

Sibling names for Suellen

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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