Susanne
Susanne reached its high-water mark in 1949 at number 289, and has been recorded 26,094 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 10,917th. About 19,000 Susannes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 64.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Susanne
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 26,094
- Estimated living today
- 19,000
- Median age today
- 64
- Peak year
- 1949
- Best rank
- 289th
- Rank in 2025
- 10,917th
- First recorded
- 1881
How old the living Susannes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 26,094 babies given the name since 1881, about 19,000 are alive — 74 in every hundred. Roughly 180 of them are children and 9,200 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1961 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin German, from Ancient Greek, from Hebrew
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Susannes
- Susanne Blakeslee (born 1956)American voice, stage and musical theatre actress
- Susanne Bier (born 1960)Danish film director
- Susanne Lothar (1960–2012)German actress
- Susanne Langer (1895–1985)American philosopher
- Susanne Klatten (born 1962)German businesswoman
- Susanne Georgi (born 1976)Danish singer
- Susanne Sundfør (born 1986)Norwegian singer
- Susanne Riess (born 1961)Austrian politician
People named Susanne with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Susanne is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Susanne is most concentrated in Massachusetts (2.1×), Connecticut (2.0×), New York (2.0×), Pennsylvania (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1949
The most popular girls’ names the year Susanne peaked:
Susanne elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norway girls | Susanne | 4,359 | 41st |
| Austria girls | Susanne | 2,246 | 32nd |
| Ireland girls | Susanne | 724 | 139th |
| France girls | Susanne | 500 | 272nd |
| Scotland girls | Susanne | 381 | 159th |
| Poland girls | Susanne | 110 birth registrations | 272nd |
| England and Wales girls | Susanne | 36 | 4,049th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Susanne | 4 | 282nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Susanne: rank by region
In 2020, Susanne was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Opolskie | Susanne | 119 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Susanne among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Susanne | 7,637 | 11,275 |
| Finland girls | Susanne | 1,895 | 5,834 |
| the Netherlands boys | Susanne | — | 94 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Susanne lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 556 women called Susanne were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balears, Illes | Susanne | 104 | 0.166 | 499 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Susanne | 63 | 0.114 | 831 |
| Palmas, Las | Susanne | 58 | 0.098 | 1,008 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Susanne | 73 | 0.071 | 1,037 |
| Málaga | Susanne | 53 | 0.058 | 1,054 |
| Girona | Susanne | 12 | 0.029 | 1,824 |
Listed in 16 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 36 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Susanne against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.