Sue
Sue is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 13 births. Its best rank was 61st, in 1946.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 130.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19475,306 births
- Best rank
- #61in 1946
- Since 1880
- 144,523people given the name
The story in the numbers
144,523 girls have been named Sue in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1947, with 5,306 births — 0.30% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 13 births in 2024, against 5,306 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1948, and the 1940s alone account for 28%. It has spent 105 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 12 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Sue | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 918 | |
| 1890s | 1,326 | |
| 1900s | 1,774 | |
| 1910s | 6,091 | |
| 1920s | 7,073 | |
| 1930s | 19,507 | |
| 1940s | 40,943 | |
| 1950s | 38,852 | |
| 1960s | 21,602 | |
| 1970s | 3,821 | |
| 1980s | 1,677 | |
| 1990s | 522 | |
| 2000s | 238 | |
| 2010s | 147 | |
| 2020s | 32 |
In 1947, its biggest year
Sue was the 69th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1947 were Linda, Mary, Patricia, Barbara and Sandra. See all of 1947.
Names that rose and fell with Sue
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Nancypeak 1947
- Gaypeak 1959
- Sallypeak 1947
- Bonniepeak 1947
- Nanciepeak 1953
- Janetpeak 1954
- Carolynpeak 1947
- Robertapeak 1953
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.