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Susana vs Susanah

American parents have registered 21,051 Susanas since 1880, against 34 Susanahs. Susana is still ahead, with 82 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Susana against Susanah, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Susana Susanah

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Susana has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1881 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1971, when Susana had 275 and Susanah had 6.

Side by side

  Susana Susanah
Total US births 21,05134
Most in one year 5376
Babies in 2025 82under 5
Estimated living today 19,00030
Median age today 3738
Peak year 19931971
Best rank 473rd girls7,388th girls
Rank in 2025 2,239thunranked
First recorded 18811971
Girls / boys 20,999 / 5234 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Susana and Susanah.