Susan
About Susan
Although Susan had her heyday from the thirties to the sixties, and is now common among moms and new grandmas, and though most modern parents would prefer Susanna/Susannah, we have spotted some flickers of interest in a revival. It still retains a certain black-eyed-Susan freshness.
Susan has a substantial literary resume, including appearances in George Eliot's Mill on the Floss, Anthony Trollope's Barchester Towers, Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge and Jude the Obscure, and Charlotte Bronte's Shirley.
Susan's many nicknames include Sue, Susie, Suzy, Sukie, and Zuzu—many of which have been celebrated in song. Among Susan's notable namesakes are activist Susan B. Anthony, writer Sontag, and actress Sarandon.
As of October 2026, Susan ranked #1091 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #2 in 1957, Nameberry popularity #229.
Editor's take: The name Susan is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "lily".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #847 | 327 | 183.1 |
| 2015 | #919 | 300 | 168.1 |
| 2016 | #909 | 306 | 172.7 |
| 2017 | #963 | 276 | 159.9 |
| 2018 | #1,082 | 235 | 138.1 |
| 2019 | #1,052 | 244 | 145.4 |
| 2020 | #975 | 262 | 162.1 |
| 2021 | #1,097 | 226 | 137.7 |
| 2022 | #1,156 | 211 | 128.6 |
| 2023 | #1,104 | 223 | 139 |
| 2024 | #1,136 | 213 | 131.5 |
| 2025 | #1,091 | 222 | 138.1 |
World rankings
Similar names
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Famous Susans
- Susan Brownell Anthony
American suffragist
- Susan Hayward (born Edythe Marrenner)
American actress
- Susan Nicole Downey
American film producer, wife of actor Robert Downey
- Susan Hampshire
Lady Kulukundis, English actress
- Susan Jaffe
American ballerina
- Susanna "Susan" Kohner
American actress
- Susan Victoria Lucci
American actress
- Susan Sessions Zuccotti
American Holocaust historian
- Susan Margaret Collins
U.S. Senator from Maine
- Susan Vreeland
American novelist
- Susan Bennett
American voice artist of Apple's Siri
- Susan Branch
American cookbook author
- Susan Abigail Sarandon
American actress
- Susan Solomon
American atmospheric chemist
- Susan Cabot (born Harriet Shapiro)
American actress
- Susan Scott Rae
Scottish TV anchor
- Susan Melody George
English actress
- Susan Horowitz Cain
American author and psychologist
- (Marian) Susan Maughan
English singer
- Susan Rothenberg
American painter
- Susan Jacoby
American author
- Susan Jeffers
American psychologist and author
- Susan Ashton (born Susan Rae Hill)
American Christian singer
- Susan Sontag
American author
- Susan Flannery
American actress
- Susan C. Faludi
American journalist and author
- Susan Michaela Sullivan
American actress
- Susan Oliver (born Charlotte Gercke)
American actress
- Susan Hallock Dey
American actress
- Susan Orlean
American journalist and author
- Zsuzsanna "Susan" Polgar
Hungarian,American chess champion and author
- Susan Powter
Australian nutritionist, author and TV host
- Susan Tedeschi
American blues musician
- Susan Jillian Tyrrell
American actress
- Susan L. Taylor
American magazine journalist and editor
- Susan Graham
American operatic mezzo,soprano
- Susan Melinda Yeagley
American actress
- Susan Ursitti
American actress
- Susan Isaacs
American novelist
- Susan E. Isaacs
American actress
- Susan Wiggs
American novelist
- Susan Cheever
American novelist, daughter of novelist John Cheever
- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
American novelist
- Susan Farrell Egan
American actress and singer
- Susan Elizabeth Rice
U.S. National Security Adviser
- Susan Lisa Rosenberg
American radical
- Susan Ann Sulley
English singer of The Human League
- Susan Saint James (born Susan Jane Miller)
American actress
- Susan Coolidge
pen name of American children's author Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
- Susan Littler
English actress
- Susan Jane Helms
American astronaut
- Susan Marie Olsen
American actress
- Susan Magdalane Boyle
Scottish singer
- Susan McFadden
Irish singer/actress
- Susan Cookson
English actress
- Susan Diane Wojcicki
American businesswoman and CEO of YouTube
- Susan Elizabeth Ford Bales
daughter of U.S. President Gerald Ford
- Susan "Susie" Essman
American comedienne and actress
- Susan Grace Calman
Scottish comedian
- Janet Susan Mary "Viva" Hoffman
American actress
- Susan Eloise "S.E." Hinton
American novelist
- Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
American novelist
- Susan Kay "Suzi" Quatro
English singer,songwriter and bassist
- Susan Martha "Susie" McEntire
American Christian singer
- Susan Kay "Suzy" Bogguss
American country music singer
- Susan Elizabeth "Suzy" Amis
American actress, wife of director James Cameron
- Linda Susan Agar
elder daughter of child star Shirley Temple
- Susan Estrich
an American lawyer, professor, author, political operative, feminist advocate, and political commentator for Fox News
- Susan Harris
American television comedy writer and producer, creator of "The Golden Girls"
- Susan Peters
American actress
- Susan Alexandra "Sigourney" Weaver
American actress
- Susan Mikula
American photographer/artist
- Susan Debra Schofield
Cabana, mother of January Schofield
Susan in pop culture
- Susan Pevensie
character in the Chronicles of Narnia series
- Susan Keane
main character on TV's "Suddenly Susan"
- Susan Frankenstein
character in movie "Frankenweenie"
- Susan Bones
character in the Harry Potter series
- Susan Bunch
character on TV's "Friends"
- Susan Calvin
character in the I, Robot Series
- Susan Cresswell
character on TV's "I'm Alan Partridge"
- Susan Delgado
character in Stephen King's The Dark Tower series
- Susan Fischer
character on TV's "Orange is the New Black"
- Susan Ivanova
character on TV show "Babylon 5"
- Susan Foreman
character on TV's "Doctor Who"
- Susan Kennedy
character on Australian soap "Neighbours"
- Susan Cole
character on Australian soap "Neighbours"
- Susan Mayer
character on TV's "Desperate Housewives"
- Susan Moore
character on American soap opera "General Hospital"
- Susan Murphy aka Ginormica
character in animated movie "Monsters vs. Aliens"
- Susan Ross
character on TV's "Seinfeld"
- Susan "Sue" Storm aka The Invisible Woman
character in Fantastic Four comics
- Susan Ashwood
character in the Power of Five series by Anthony Horowitz
- Susan Mortlake
character in the Power of Five series
- Susan Wainwright
character in "The Sims 3" computer game
- Susan "LaF" LaFontaine
character on TV's "Camilla"
- Susan Elinor "Suellen" O'Hara Benteen
character in "Gone with the Wind"
- Susan Vance
character in "Bringing Up Baby"
- Susan Mullucks
thalidomide baby on TV's "Call the midwife"
- "To Susan on the West Coast
Waiting," song by Donovan
- Susan G. Komen
breast cancer organization
- Lazy Susan
rotating table tray
- Black
eyed Susan, flower
- Susan Lewis
character on TV's "ER"
- Susan Elizabeth Walker
character in 1994 remake of "Miracle on 34th Street"
- Susan Heffley
a character from Diary of a Wimpy Kid
- "Poor Susan"
A ballad in William Wordsworth's collection of poems, "Lyrical Ballads"
Variations & nicknames
- SusanneGerman
- ZuzanaCzech
- SyuzannaRussian
- SusanitaSpanish
- SusanaPortuguese
- ZsuzsaHungarian
- SuzanneFrench
- ZsuzsiHungarian
- SuzetteFrench
- SuseGerman
- ZsazsaHungarian
- SuzanaSlavic
- ZuzannaLatvian
- ZsuzsannaHungarian
- SusannSwedish
- SusanaSpanish
More nicknames
- Sue
- Susy
- Susie
- Suki
- Sukie