Sue is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Sue in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Sue in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Sue by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Sue ranks at #8,296. That means there are 8,295 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 137,141 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Sue. That is 0.04 % of all living Americans.
Everyone knows her, everyone loves her and still she’s different from the mainstream: Sue occurs in every single state of the U.S. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the more than 50,000 different female first names that occur in the USA, just 537 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Sue is definitely something very special. However, at the same time, since the name does not appear in the top 100 most common first names in any single state, Sue is not one of those names that one encounters in every neighbourhood, but stands out from the crowd, is noticeable and special without being strange or unknown. From Alaska to Florida, a total of 137,083 women and girls of all generations bear the name Sue – that is one in 1,125. However, there are considerable regional differences – the name is far more popular than average in Kentucky, where one in 523 women and girls is called Sue, while it is particularly rare in Alaska, where you have to ask an average of 6,566 women for their name to get Sue as an answer once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a very popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 9.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter A is more common for girls' names.
With only three letters, the name Sue is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 9.3% of all girls' names start with an S, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the girls' names that start with an S, Susan is the most common.
If your name is Sue and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Sue, you can simply say:
Sun
Unicorn
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Sue
Sue
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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U
E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
S
U
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Sue sounds like this:
