Sussan

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Sussan has been given to 76 babies in the U.S. since 1958. 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 2007, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Sussan, 2019

1 in 694,000

Sussan over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sussan: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sussan means

Sussan is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Sussan is used in Norwegian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 76 girls were recorded with the name Sussan between 1958 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2007; its best national rank was #5,340 in 1958.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Sussan?

Sussan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019: 1 in 694,000; 5 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only: 1 in 336,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 481,354 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Sussan 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 2019 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 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sussan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sussans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sussan was born before 2001 — so the typical Sussan is around 24 today.

Median birth year: 2001; About 24 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 77.6%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 76; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (38).

Is Sussan 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: —; 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 2007 (9)
Years since peak: 18; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 22.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #5,340; 1958

Spellings of Sussan

Sussan is not the most common spelling — Susan is, with 97.1% against Sussan's <0.01%.

Susan97.1%1,123,481
Susana1.8%20,999
Suzan0.79%9,081
Susann0.27%3,097
Sussan<0.01%76

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.

Sussan around the world

Where Sussan 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.

South Australia
1944–1994
#716
in 1994

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Sussan 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: #5,340; 1958
Peak year: 2007; 9 that year
First recorded: 1958
Last recorded: 2019
All-time count: 76
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Sussan

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

Susej Sawsan Susane Bisan Sussy Ihsan Besan Alisan Suesan Krisan Susanah Yosan Susen Sussie Beesan Suszanne Suset Rosan Susian Filsan Susann Addysan Alysan Susa

Sibling names for Sussan

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

For a sister

Jailyn Kalli Neveah Marlen Jaylyn Lupita Rhianna Marin

For a brother

Jaeden Nikhil Jamarcus Brandt Nevin Ean Davian Isai

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