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Sue

Pronounced /suː/

Rank in 2024
#8,005
Born in 2024
13
Peak year
1947 · #69
Origin
Not recorded

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 13 girls were named Sue, about 1 in every 124,091.
  • It peaked in 1947 with 5,306 babies, ranked #69.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 144,523 girls have been named Sue since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Sue per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0.6
    Greatest
  2. 2.1
    Silent
  3. 2.0
    Boomers
  4. 0.4
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 13,057 babies, 0.64 per 1,000. Silent: 43,124 babies, 2.09 per 1,000. Boomers: 73,365 babies, 2.05 per 1,000. Gen X: 10,306 babies, 0.40 per 1,000. Millennials: 1,749 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Gen Z: 391 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 130 babies, 0.01 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

Clipping.

  • A diminutive of the female given name Susan and of related female given names; popular as a middle name.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/suː/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Sue, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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