Meaning not yet researched.
Sue: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 11 in 2025. Its best rank was #61 in 1946.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #61 in 1946; #9,387 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Sue in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,387 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1946, at #61.
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Sue: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 11 girls in 2025. Peak: #61 in 1946 · most girls in one year: 5,306 (1947).
In 2025, 11 US girls were named Sue, making it the 9,387th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,012 places from #8,375 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 13 girls named Sue in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #61, reached in 1946. The most girls given the name in a single year was 5,306, in 1947. For comparison, it was #8,886 in 2015 and #100 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sue in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 65 babies. In all, 145,055 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1940s, with 41,082 babies named Sue.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 87 US girls were named Sue; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 16. In 2025 that was about 1 in 146,115 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Susan (1,126,022 babies since 1880), Suzanne (219,801 babies since 1880), Susie (86,067 babies since 1880) and Susanne (26,094 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Su, Suha and Suhey are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Susan and Susie.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Su (733), Suha (503), Suhey (212), Sua (192), Soua (161), Sui (96), Sueo (80), Suah (27), Suho (11).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,387 | — | — |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,375 | — | — |
| 2023 | 9 | #11,070 | — | — |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,459 | — | — |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,399 | — | — |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,344 | — | — |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,380 | — | — |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,610 | — | — |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,362 | — | — |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,886 | — | — |
| 2014 | 15 | #8,010 | — | — |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,301 | — | — |
| 2012 | 13 | #9,056 | — | — |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,818 | — | — |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,475 | — | — |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,690 | — | — |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,705 | — | — |
| 2007 | 23 | #6,058 | — | — |
| 2006 | 22 | #6,102 | — | — |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,975 | — | — |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,197 | — | — |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,396 | — | — |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,888 | — | — |
| 2001 | 32 | #4,020 | — | — |
| 2000 | 36 | #3,652 | — | — |
| 1999 | 29 | #4,072 | — | — |
| 1998 | 32 | #3,724 | — | — |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,868 | — | — |
| 1996 | 38 | #3,138 | 11 | #5,483 |
| 1995 | 47 | #2,649 | — | — |
| 1994 | 48 | #2,621 | 9 | #6,290 |
| 1993 | 64 | #2,122 | 10 | #5,721 |
| 1992 | 68 | #2,028 | 7 | #7,298 |
| 1991 | 79 | #1,814 | 10 | #5,462 |
| 1990 | 74 | #1,904 | 11 | #4,949 |
| 1989 | 86 | #1,628 | 14 | #3,998 |
| 1988 | 97 | #1,438 | 18 | #3,061 |
| 1987 | 101 | #1,361 | 8 | #5,397 |
| 1986 | 108 | #1,258 | 8 | #5,268 |
| 1985 | 140 | #1,059 | 11 | #4,018 |
| 1984 | 147 | #987 | 8 | #4,905 |
| 1983 | 171 | #889 | 8 | #4,859 |
| 1982 | 211 | #779 | 11 | #3,926 |
| 1981 | 270 | #658 | 7 | #5,419 |
| 1980 | 347 | #543 | — | — |
| 1979 | 272 | #642 | 5 | #6,954 |
| 1978 | 235 | #682 | — | — |
| 1977 | 280 | #606 | — | — |
| 1976 | 241 | #646 | — | — |
| 1975 | 293 | #567 | — | — |
| 1974 | 355 | #496 | 5 | #5,907 |
| 1973 | 396 | #463 | — | — |
| 1972 | 453 | #430 | — | — |
| 1971 | 632 | #372 | 5 | #5,567 |
| 1970 | 666 | #367 | — | — |
| 1969 | 810 | #318 | — | — |
| 1968 | 979 | #276 | — | — |
| 1967 | 1,258 | #232 | — | — |
| 1966 | 1,316 | #228 | 8 | #3,217 |
| 1965 | 1,775 | #190 | — | — |
| 1964 | 2,173 | #176 | 10 | #2,825 |
| 1963 | 2,591 | #155 | 6 | #3,999 |
| 1962 | 3,184 | #135 | — | — |
| 1961 | 3,506 | #130 | 9 | #3,072 |
| 1960 | 4,009 | #120 | 6 | #4,001 |
| 1959 | 4,387 | #107 | 11 | #2,643 |
| 1958 | 4,673 | #102 | 15 | #2,165 |
| 1957 | 4,490 | #104 | 10 | #2,809 |
| 1956 | 3,755 | #118 | — | — |
| 1955 | 3,729 | #116 | 8 | #3,175 |
| 1954 | 3,975 | #106 | — | — |
| 1953 | 3,648 | #106 | 8 | #3,119 |
| 1952 | 3,335 | #113 | — | — |
| 1951 | 3,357 | #106 | 14 | #2,128 |
| 1950 | 3,503 | #100 | 9 | #2,753 |
| 1949 | 3,926 | #88 | 11 | #2,440 |
| 1948 | 4,675 | #78 | 10 | #2,598 |
| 1947 | 5,306 | #69 | 12 | #2,346 |
| 1946 | 5,144 | #61 | 17 | #1,805 |
| 1945 | 3,914 | #66 | 16 | #1,761 |
| 1944 | 4,034 | #62 | 15 | #1,879 |
| 1943 | 3,850 | #72 | 19 | #1,690 |
| 1942 | 3,631 | #73 | 15 | #1,936 |
| 1941 | 3,359 | #75 | 16 | #1,813 |
| 1940 | 3,104 | #81 | 8 | #2,840 |
| 1939 | 2,623 | #92 | — | — |
| 1938 | 2,589 | #104 | 10 | #2,470 |
| 1937 | 2,504 | #101 | 12 | #2,183 |
| 1936 | 2,222 | #109 | 9 | #2,602 |
| 1935 | 2,024 | #115 | 13 | #2,117 |
| 1934 | 1,933 | #119 | 14 | #2,012 |
| 1933 | 1,670 | #131 | 7 | #3,249 |
| 1932 | 1,509 | #139 | 7 | #3,336 |
| 1931 | 1,220 | #153 | 6 | #3,711 |
| 1930 | 1,213 | #167 | 5 | #4,484 |
| 1929 | 944 | #198 | — | — |
| 1928 | 780 | #225 | 5 | #4,660 |
| 1927 | 678 | #251 | 5 | #4,725 |
| 1926 | 697 | #248 | — | — |
| 1925 | 673 | #255 | — | — |
| 1924 | 644 | #258 | — | — |
| 1923 | 598 | #262 | — | — |
| 1922 | 684 | #252 | — | — |
| 1921 | 668 | #256 | — | — |
| 1920 | 707 | #246 | — | — |
| 1919 | 693 | #242 | — | — |
| 1918 | 785 | #226 | — | — |
| 1917 | 778 | #218 | 7 | #3,508 |
| 1916 | 868 | #203 | — | — |
| 1915 | 812 | #203 | — | — |
| 1914 | 634 | #205 | — | — |
| 1913 | 483 | #215 | — | — |
| 1912 | 431 | #215 | — | — |
| 1911 | 330 | #214 | — | — |
| 1910 | 277 | #231 | — | — |
| 1909 | 243 | #231 | — | — |
| 1908 | 206 | #237 | — | — |
| 1907 | 201 | #233 | — | — |
| 1906 | 178 | #243 | — | — |
| 1905 | 191 | #225 | — | — |
| 1904 | 163 | #245 | — | — |
| 1903 | 146 | #252 | — | — |
| 1902 | 154 | #251 | — | — |
| 1901 | 135 | #250 | — | — |
| 1900 | 157 | #261 | — | — |
| 1899 | 122 | #259 | — | — |
| 1898 | 143 | #250 | — | — |
| 1897 | 145 | #229 | — | — |
| 1896 | 121 | #261 | — | — |
| 1895 | 157 | #219 | — | — |
| 1894 | 105 | #270 | — | — |
| 1893 | 123 | #237 | — | — |
| 1892 | 163 | #197 | — | — |
| 1891 | 127 | #210 | — | — |
| 1890 | 120 | #223 | — | — |
| 1889 | 112 | #220 | — | — |
| 1888 | 117 | #212 | — | — |
| 1887 | 123 | #182 | — | — |
| 1886 | 96 | #203 | — | — |
| 1885 | 94 | #195 | — | — |
| 1884 | 92 | #195 | — | — |
| 1883 | 68 | #217 | — | — |
| 1882 | 84 | #172 | — | — |
| 1881 | 67 | #186 | — | — |
| 1880 | 65 | #190 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).