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Susumu

Boys' name

Advance, make progress

Susumu has been given to 351 babies in the U.S. since 1914. 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 1919, with 27 recorded.

Babies named Susumu, 1943

1 in 403,000

Susumu over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Susumu: meaning, origin, and history

Advance, make progress

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Susumu means

Susumu means “advance, make progress”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Susumu is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /sɨᵝ.sɨᵝ.mɯᵝ/ for Susumu.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 351 boys were recorded with the name Susumu between 1914 and 1943. Its highest annual count was 27 in 1919; its best national rank was #1,405 in 1919.

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.

How common is Susumu?

Susumu had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1943, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1943
1 in 403,000
7 of 2,822,499 births
Among boys only
1 in 204,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1943
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
279,488 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Susumu sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1943 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 279,488 children born in 1943 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Susumu. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Susumus were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Susumu was born before 1925 — so the typical Susumu is around 100 today.

Median birth year
1925
About 100 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
57.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
85.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 57.3% of all recorded uses (201).

Is Susumu 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1919 (27)
Years since peak
106
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,405
1919

Where Susumu is used

Across 1910–2025, Susumu was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 3,030 boys, against 1 in 62,497 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in 100,000).

133 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 3,030
  2. 2California1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Susumu has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Susumu by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,405
1919
Peak year
1919
27 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
1943
All-time count
351
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Susumu

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

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Sibling names for Susumu

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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