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How popular is “Susan” in the USA?

Number of people named “Susan” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Susan” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Susan” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Susan” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Susan” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Susan” by birth year

This chart shows how “Susan” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 286 0.001419468 286 100%
1881 292 0.001515403 292 100%
1882 326 0.001471564 326 100%
1883 322 0.00148424 322 100%
1884 326 0.001339023 326 100%
1885 302 0.001253872 302 100%
1886 323 0.001265099 323 100%
1887 335 0.001354126 335 100%
1888 363 0.001212125 363 100%
1889 356 0.001232064 356 100%
1890 354 0.001174515 354 100%
1891 370 0.001290669 370 100%
1892 366 0.001094583 366 100%
1893 356 0.001094633 356 100%
1894 357 0.001054061 357 100%
1895 393 0.001119594 393 100%
1896 343 0.000959483 343 100%
1897 346 0.000997242 341 5 97%
1898 382 0.001001429 382 100%
1899 350 0.001031736 350 100%
1900 410 0.000910589 410 100%
1901 342 0.000988977 342 100%
1902 335 0.000866231 335 100%
1903 305 0.000800105 305 100%
1904 324 0.000803004 324 100%
1905 320 0.000754856 320 100%
1906 326 0.00076088 326 100%
1907 355 0.000762801 355 100%
1908 350 0.000716261 350 100%
1909 380 0.000743314 380 100%
1910 395 0.000668686 395 100%
1911 459 0.000712425 459 100%
1912 522 0.000528307 522 100%
1913 543 0.000477526 543 100%
1914 661 0.000466695 661 100%
1915 822 0.000448586 817 5 99%
1916 844 0.000436307 844 100%
1917 837 0.000417092 837 100%
1918 912 0.000420061 912 100%
1919 824 0.000390476 824 100%
1920 850 0.000375667 850 100%
1921 846 0.000362389 846 100%
1922 795 0.00034729 795 100%
1923 811 0.000352229 811 100%
1924 832 0.000349344 832 100%
1925 862 0.000369434 862 100%
1926 858 0.000373709 858 100%
1927 874 0.000376828 868 6 99%
1928 812 0.000359143 812 100%
1929 874 0.000398693 874 100%
1930 1003 0.000451134 1003 100%
1931 1005 0.000477574 1005 100%
1932 1236 0.000585424 1227 9 99%
1933 1269 0.000634675 1264 5 99%
1934 1501 0.000722741 1492 9 99%
1935 1806 0.000864156 1801 5 99%
1936 2165 0.001042079 2153 12 99%
1937 2651 0.00124421 2641 10 99%
1938 3571 0.001613957 3555 16 99%
1939 4907 0.00222697 4887 20 99%
1940 6783 0.002945692 6756 27 99%
1941 8927 0.003663975 8888 39 99%
1942 12069 0.004417937 12015 54 99%
1943 14938 0.005292361 14888 50 99%
1944 16385 0.006090899 16330 55 99%
1945 19276 0.007265984 19221 55 99%
1946 28327 0.008865189 28268 59 100%
1947 32015 0.008887324 31951 64 100%
1948 36044 0.010439917 35988 56 100%
1949 37761 0.01083599 37709 52 100%
1950 38074 0.010867859 38017 57 100%
1951 40272 0.010932371 40228 44 100%
1952 41403 0.010901249 41348 55 100%
1953 44368 0.011513258 44297 71 100%
1954 47228 0.011864221 47162 66 100%
1955 47484 0.011826415 47419 65 100%
1956 46629 0.011309382 46562 67 100%
1957 46049 0.010958456 45952 97 100%
1958 45259 0.010948246 45172 87 100%
1959 41703 0.010029601 41616 87 100%
1960 39289 0.009458533 39208 81 100%
1961 37617 0.009081185 37530 87 100%
1962 35836 0.00888047 35750 86 100%
1963 34070 0.008607448 33990 80 100%
1964 31599 0.008128141 31515 84 99%
1965 26375 0.007274961 26322 53 100%
1966 23842 0.006859714 23775 67 99%
1967 22326 0.006576341 22262 64 99%
1968 19561 0.005789997 19504 57 99%
1969 17855 0.005137652 17805 50 99%
1970 15791 0.004378466 15739 52 99%
1971 13828 0.004028721 13783 45 99%
1972 10618 0.003378307 10574 44 99%
1973 9310 0.003085962 9279 31 99%
1974 8507 0.002798356 8471 36 99%
1975 7519 0.002490235 7487 32 99%
1976 6422 0.002116468 6403 19 99%
1977 5979 0.001882264 5960 19 99%
1978 5439 0.001713681 5418 21 99%
1979 5219 0.001568681 5196 23 99%
1980 4723 0.001371169 4704 19 99%
1981 4259 0.001231147 4244 15 99%
1982 3986 0.001136272 3969 17 99%
1983 3371 0.000973338 3357 14 99%
1984 3131 0.000897455 3116 15 99%
1985 2679 0.000750607 2661 18 99%
1986 2406 0.000676398 2389 17 99%
1987 2258 0.000626246 2247 11 99%
1988 2076 0.000561834 2060 16 98%
1989 1815 0.00047211 1800 15 98%
1990 1700 0.00043011 1687 13 98%
1991 1479 0.000379692 1479 100%
1992 1380 0.000359256 1373 7 99%
1993 1208 0.000320401 1200 8 99%
1994 1025 0.000275712 1025 100%
1995 894 0.000244119 894 100%
1996 963 0.000264039 963 100%
1997 807 0.000222575 807 100%
1998 758 0.000206079 758 100%
1999 707 0.000191398 707 100%
2000 693 0.000183338 693 100%
2001 638 0.000170434 638 100%
2002 615 0.000164514 615 100%
2003 576 0.000151486 576 100%
2004 538 0.000140804 531 7 97%
2005 487 0.000126663 487 100%
2006 495 0.00012512 495 100%
2007 467 0.000116818 467 100%
2008 431 0.000109651 431 100%
2009 379 0.00009921 379 100%
2010 356 0.000096327 356 100%
2011 356 0.000097326 356 100%
2012 328 0.000089682 328 100%
2013 319 0.000087501 319 100%
2014 332 0.000089575 327 5 97%
2015 300 0.000081061 300 100%
2016 306 0.000083408 306 100%
2017 281 0.000078575 276 5 96%
2018 235 0.000066839 235 100%
2019 244 0.000070298 244 100%
2020 262 0.00007843 262 100%
2021 226 0.000066707 226 100%
2022 211 0.000062368 211 100%
2023 223 0.000067347 223 100%
2024 213 0.000063993 213 100%

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