Suzanne is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Suzanne is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 girls have been named Suzanne. In the SmartGenius ranking, Suzanne is #2,344 on the list of most common girls names. In the entire USA, approximately 213,829 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Suzanne. That is 0.06 % of all living Americans.
#52 - this is the highest position Suzanne has ever reached. Most names never manage to reach such high popularity in even one of the 143 years of records.The last time Suzanne reached this top position was in the last century, in 1946, when 5,958 newborn girls were named Suzanne. But as our statistics show, Suzanne has not always been a popular name: in some years of records, lastly in the year 1883, it was either not given to newborns at all or less than 5 times (a name is only included in the official statistics if it is given at least 5 times in a year). Even today it's not at the peak of its popularity, nevertheless Suzanne is still the first choice of some parents every year as the most beautiful first name for their newborn daughter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Suzanne was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 54 newborns were given the name Suzanne, making them rank #2,698. Although the name Suzanne was more popular in the last century than it is today, it is still common and for some parents it is the name of choice for their daughter. So the chances of an encounter with a young Suzanne are still there in our contemporary times.
There are only 537 different women’s names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Suzanne is one of them. However, Suzanne is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Rhode Island seem to particularly fancy this name – the 1,789 women called Suzanne who live here are 0,320% of all female residents and push their name up to #96, easily placing it in the top 100 most common female names in Rhode Island.
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 seven letters, the name Suzanne has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. 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 Suzanne 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 Suzanne, you can simply say:
Sun
Unicorn
Zebra
Apple
Nut
Nut
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Suzanne
Suzanne
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
U
Z
A
N
N
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
Z
A
N
N
E
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. Suzanne sounds like this:
