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Susana vs Susann

American parents have registered 21,051 Susanas since 1880, against 3,097 Susanns. Susana is still ahead, with 82 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Susana Susann

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

Of the 136 years in which either name was published, Susana for 118 years and Susann for 18 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Susana Susann
Total US births 21,0513,097
Most in one year 537121
Babies in 2025 826
Estimated living today 19,0002,200
Median age today 3768
Peak year 19931943
Best rank 473rd girls691st girls
Rank in 2025 2,239th13,208th
First recorded 18811910
Girls / boys 20,999 / 523,097 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Susanns alive today are over 68; half the Susanas are over 37. That is 31 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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