# Susanne (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/susanne/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | German |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /suːˈzæn/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 26,094 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 26,094 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 36, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 13 | 9,170 |
| 2011 | 17 | 7,388 |
| 2012 | 15 | 8,172 |
| 2013 | 10 | 10,918 |
| 2014 | 13 | 8,913 |
| 2016 | 8 | 12,761 |
| 2017 | 8 | 12,609 |
| 2018 | 15 | 7,722 |
| 2019 | 13 | 8,553 |
| 2020 | 6 | 14,906 |
| 2021 | 11 | 9,477 |
| 2022 | 8 | 12,122 |
| 2023 | 8 | 12,070 |
| 2024 | 8 | 12,038 |
| 2025 | 8 | 11,815 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 5 | 2,683 |
| 1997 | 3 | 3,824 |
| 1998 | 4 | 3,142 |
| 1999 | 5 | 2,770 |
| 2007 | 4 | 4,294 |
| 2011 | 5 | 4,049 |
| 2014 | 3 | 5,691 |
| 2015 | 4 | 4,736 |
| 2017 | 3 | 5,765 |

## People named Susanne

- Susanne Blakeslee, American voice, stage and musical theatre actress
- Susanne Bier, Danish film director (born 1960)
- Susanne Langer, American philosopher (1895–1985)
- Susanne Lothar, German actress (1960-2012)
- Susanne Georgi, Danish singer
- Susanne Klatten, German businesswoman
- Susanne Riess, Austrian politician
- Susanne Wenger, Austrian-Nigerian artist (1915-2009)
- Susanne Munk Wilbek, Danish handball player
- Susanne Nielsson, Danish swimmer
- Susanne Grainger, Canadian rower
- Susanne von Klettenberg, German abbess and writer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.