Suzann

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Suzann has been given to 4,034 babies in the U.S. since 1916. 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 1947, with 129 recorded.

Babies named Suzann, 2013

1 in 729,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Suzann: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Suzann means

Suzann is a given name.

The naming story behind Suzann

Wikidata records Suzann as a given name. The entity identifier is Q94368759, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,034 girls were recorded with the name Suzann between 1916 and 2013. Its highest annual count was 129 in 1947; its best national rank was #731 in 1946.

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 Suzann?

Suzann had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2013
1 in 729,000
5 of 3,645,938 births
Among girls only
1 in 351,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2013
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
505,435 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Suzann 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 2013 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 505,435 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Suzann. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Suzanns were born

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

Median birth year
1957
About 68 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
27.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,852
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1950s — 27.3% of all recorded uses (1,100).

Is Suzann 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 1947 (129)
Years since peak
78
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#731
1946

Spellings of Suzann

Suzann is not the most common spelling — Susan is, with 76.4% against Suzann's 0.27%.

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 Suzann is used

Across 1910–2025, Suzann was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 59,937 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Pennsylvania1 in 25,000
  2. 2Michigan1 in 33,333
  3. 3California1 in 50,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 50,000
  5. 5New York1 in 50,000
  6. 6Ohio1 in 50,000
  7. 7Iowa1 in 100,000
  8. 8Indiana1 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. Suzann has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Suzann around the world

Where Suzann 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.

  • Scotland
    1983–1984
    #547
    in 1984
  • Ireland
    1969–1985
    #421
    in 1985
  • South Australia
    1953–1975
    #675
    in 1975

Popularity data from National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Suzann

People whose public names include Suzann, 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.

Suzann in other languages

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

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

Suzann 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
#731
1946
Peak year
1947
129 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2013
All-time count
4,034
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Suzann

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

Names with a curve like Suzann

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

Sibling names for Suzann

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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