Suzy

#5,887 in 2025Girls' name

Lily, through Susan

Suzy has been given to 4,270 babies in the U.S. since 1913. In 2025 it ranked #5,887 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1962, with 227 recorded.

Babies named Suzy, 2025

1 in 158,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Suzy: meaning, origin, and history

Lily, through Susan

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Suzy means

Suzy belongs to the name family reached through Suzy → Susan. Its meaning is “lily”.

Origin, language, and formation

Suzy is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Susan.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,270 girls were recorded with the name Suzy between 1913 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 227 in 1962; its best national rank was #686 in 1962.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,187 in 2020 to #5,887 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,229 in 2015 to #5,887 in 2025.

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 Suzy?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 158,000; 21 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 76,500; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #5,887; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 109,425 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Suzy 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 2025 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 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Suzy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Suzys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Suzy was born before 1964 — so the typical Suzy is around 61 today.

Median birth year: 1964; About 61 years old
Biggest decade: 1960s; 33.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 11.1%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 3,671; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1960s — 33.5% of all recorded uses (1,431).

Is Suzy 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: +2,022; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: +1,300; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: +1,342; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.24×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 9.3%; Peak was 1962 (227)
Years since peak: 63; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 27.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #686; 1962

Spellings of Suzy

Suzy is not the most common spelling — Judy is, with 31.0% against Suzy's 0.35%.

Judy31.0%382,979
Ruby30.5%376,570
Lucy19.2%236,969
Sue11.7%144,536
Luz2.3%27,874
Sunny1.1%13,191
Sky0.79%9,743
Suzan0.73%9,081

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 Suzy is used

Across 1910–2025, Suzy was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 76,941 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in 25,000
2New York1 in 50,000
3Oregon1 in 50,000
4Texas1 in 50,000
5Alabama1 in 100,000
6Colorado1 in 100,000
7Florida1 in 100,000
8Iowa1 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. Suzy has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Suzy around the world

Where Suzy 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
1996–2025
#5,927
in 2025
Scotland
1974–1987
#582
in 1987
France
1917–2025
#2,039
in 2025
Canada
1991–2024
#2,256
in 2024
South Australia
1959–2013
#818
in 2013

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.

Suzy by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #5,887
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 1,300
Best rank ever: #686; 1962
Peak year: 1962; 227 that year
First recorded: 1913
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 4,270
Count in 2025: 21

Names similar to Suzy

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

Suzie Suzi Suzana Suzan Suzann Suzanna Suzette Suzannah Suzu Suzane Suzzanne Suzzette Suzanne Suzon Suzetta Suzen Suzzane Suzeth Suzett Suze Suzet Suz Suzuko Suzume

Names with a curve like Suzy

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

Fonda Deeann Shiela Pennie Gerri Cherri Jacquline Dawna Lanette Lorinda Trudi Jacki

Sibling names for Suzy

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

Carmel Marybeth Pennie Juli Zina Missy Mitzi Maryellen

For a brother

Cornell Darron Russ Randell Alphonso Robby Timmy Tad

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