In 2025, 82 US girls were named Susana, making it the 2,254th most common girls’ name of the year, up 89 places from #2,343 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 79 girls named Susana in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #457, reached in 1981. The most girls given the name in a single year was 537, in 1993. For comparison, it was #1,709 in 2015 and #1,000 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Susana in 136 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 5 babies. In all, 21,051 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 4,148 babies named Susana.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 928 US girls were named Susana; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 114. In 2025 that was about 1 in 19,601 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Susana ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #1,187 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Susan (1,126,022 babies since 1880), Suzanne (219,801 babies since 1880), Sue (145,055 babies since 1880) and Susie (86,067 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Suzana and Susanah are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Galician, Portuguese and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.