In 2025, 70 US girls were named Susannah, making it the 2,536th most common girls’ name of the year, up 208 places from #2,744 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 63 girls named Susannah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #804, reached in 1882. The most girls given the name in a single year was 152, in 1975. For comparison, it was #2,313 in 2015 and #2,047 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Susannah in 130 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1882 with 7 babies. In all, 7,784 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 1,422 babies named Susannah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 674 US girls were named Susannah; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 94. In 2025 that was about 1 in 22,961 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Susannah ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #3,738 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). The open nickname list we use links it to Hannah, Sue, Sukey and Susie.