Sussie

Girls' name

Diminutive of Susanne

Sussie has been given to 425 babies in the U.S. since 1884. 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 1922, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Sussie, 2016

1 in 734,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sussie: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Susanne

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sussie means

Sussie is a diminutive of Susanne.

Origin, language, and formation

Sussie is used in Danish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Susanne.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 425 girls were recorded with the name Sussie between 1884 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 20 in 1922; its best national rank was #917 in 1884.

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 Sussie?

Sussie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016: 1 in 734,000; 5 of 3,669,531 births
Among girls only: 1 in 354,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2016: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 508,706 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Sussie 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 2016 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 508,706 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sussie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sussies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sussie was born before 1922 — so the typical Sussie is around 103 today.

Median birth year: 1922; About 103 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 29.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 2.6%; Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950: 53; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 29.6% of all recorded uses (126).

Is Sussie 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 1922 (20)
Years since peak: 103; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 39.8% average annual change
Best rank ever: #917; 1884

Spellings of Sussie

Sussie is not the most common spelling — Bessie is, with 28.4% against Sussie's 0.07%.

Bessie28.4%170,140
Jessie28.4%170,036
Susie14.3%85,789
Cassie7.8%46,642
Essie6.6%39,682
Lessie2.4%14,073
Gussie2.2%13,084
Dessie1.9%11,414

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 Sussie is used

Across 1910–2025, Sussie was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 688,128 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Georgia1 in —
2South Carolina1 in —

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. Sussie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sussie 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: #917; 1884
Peak year: 1922; 20 that year
First recorded: 1884
Last recorded: 2016
All-time count: 425
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Sussie

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

Maysie Jersie Ellsie Susann Masie Kensie Posie Daisie Susane Susie Kaysie Hassie Susy Jaysie Dorsie Tassie Wessie Maesie Vessie Rossie Susej Nessie Patsie Susen

Sibling names for Sussie

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

Albertha Bethel Verla Lorine Elvera Rubie Tressie Filomena

For a brother

Trinidad Hobert Harland Walton Elden Cletus Elroy Columbus

Explore around Sussie

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