Susan

Susan is the 30,637th most common surname in the United States, shared by 815 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 367,000.

By the numbers

People: 815
Rank: 30,637th
How common: 1 in 367,000
Per 100,000: 0.27

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Susan described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 77.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 7.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 6.9%
Black, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.5%

Surnames like Susan

Also a first name

Susan has been given to 1,126,022 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1955. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.