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Suzette vs Suzie

American parents have registered 16,968 Suzettes since 1880, against 3,984 Suzies. Suzette is still ahead, with 29 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Suzette Suzie

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 111 years in which either name was published, Suzette for 100 years and Suzie for 11 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Suzette Suzie
Total US births 16,9683,984
Most in one year 719175
Babies in 2025 2929
Estimated living today 15,0003,300
Median age today 5858
Peak year 19641962
Best rank 352nd girls784th girls
Rank in 2025 4,661st4,661st
First recorded 19121897
Girls / boys 16,963 / 53,984 / 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.

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 Suzette Suzie
France 8,4604,500
Belgium 17293

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: Suzette and Suzie.