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Suzan

Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Suzan has been given to 9,081 babies in the U.S. since 1898. 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 1955, with 484 recorded.

Babies named Suzan, 2024

1 in 669,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Suzan: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Suzan means

Suzan has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Suzan

A separate documented entry treats Suzan as a variant of Susan. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

One of the source’s documented entries for Suzan records a meaning of burning.

Origin, language, and formation

Suzan is used in English and Turkish.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,081 girls were recorded with the name Suzan between 1898 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 484 in 1955; its best national rank was #396 in 1955.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Suzan?

Suzan 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 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Suzan 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Suzan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Suzans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Suzan was born before 1957 — so the typical Suzan is around 68 today.

Median birth year
1957
About 68 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
39.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
7,143
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1950s — 39.3% of all recorded uses (3,571).

Is Suzan 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1955 (484)
Years since peak
70
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#396
1955

Spellings of Suzan

Suzan is not the most common spelling — Susan is, with 78.6% against Suzan's 0.64%.

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 Suzan is used

Across 1910–2025, Suzan was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 24,519 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 14,286
  2. 2California1 in 16,667
  3. 3New York1 in 16,667
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 16,667
  5. 5Washington1 in 16,667
  6. 6Colorado1 in 20,000
  7. 7Iowa1 in 20,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 20,000

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

Suzan around the world

Where Suzan 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
    1996–2023
    #5,688
    in 2023
  • Scotland
    1977–1977
    #510
    in 1977
  • France
    1953–2025
    #2,860
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–1993
    #2,149
    in 1993
  • South Australia
    1947–1996
    #712
    in 1996

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Suzan

People whose public names include Suzan, 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.

Suzan in other languages

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

SueSusiSuziSusanSusieSuzieSusanaSusannSuzannZuzanaSusannaSusanneSuzanneZuzannaSusannahZsuzsaZsuzsanna

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

Suzan 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
#396
1955
Peak year
1955
484 that year
First recorded
1898
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
9,081
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Suzan

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

SuzieSuzySuzannaSuzetteSuzanaSuzannRazanSuziSuzannahSuzanneSuzaneSuzuSuzzanneSuzzetteSuzonSuzettaSuzenSuzzaneSuzethSuzettSuzetRozanSuzukoSuzume

Names with a curve like Suzan

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

LynLuanneRosanneDinahCathieCindaKathieGaylaBonnyRandyNanciMerry

Sibling names for Suzan

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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