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Susanne vs Susano

American parents have registered 26,094 Susannes since 1880, against 62 Susanos. Susanne is still ahead, with 8 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Susanne against Susano, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Susanne Susano

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

Susanne 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 1924, when Susanne had 59 and Susano had 8.

Side by side

  Susanne Susano
Total US births 26,09462
Most in one year 7138
Babies in 2025 8under 5
Estimated living today 19,00020
Median age today 6474
Peak year 19491924
Best rank 289th girls3,260th boys
Rank in 2025 10,917thunranked
First recorded 18811916
Girls / boys 26,094 / 00 / 62

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 Susanos alive today are over 74; half the Susannes are over 64. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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