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Suzann vs Suzi

American parents have registered 4,034 Suzanns since 1880, against 1,398 Suzis. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Suzann against Suzi, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Suzann Suzi

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 88 years in which either name was published, Suzann for 75 years and Suzi for 13 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Suzann Suzi
Total US births 4,0341,398
Most in one year 12963
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 3,1001,200
Median age today 6562
Peak year 19471961
Best rank 755th girls1,406th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19161933
Girls / boys 4,034 / 01,398 / 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 Suzanns alive today are over 65; half the Suzis are over 62. That is 3 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Suzann Suzi
Scotland 86

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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