Susie
- Pronunciation
- [Su-sie]
- Gender
- Female
- Meaning
- Lily. Variant Of Hebrew Susannah. In The Apocryphal Book Of Tobit Susannah Courageously Defended Herself Against Wrongful Accusation. White Lilies Grew In The Biblical City Of Susa In Persia.
- Origin
- English
About the Name Susie
Susie is a diminutive pet form of Susan or Susannah, names derived from the Hebrew shoshannah, meaning "lily." The name has deep roots in the biblical tradition: the apocryphal Book of Tobit (more precisely the Book of Susanna in the Apocrypha) features a Susannah who courageously defended herself against wrongful accusation — a story that gave the name associations of moral courage alongside floral beauty. White lilies also flourished in the ancient Persian city of Susa, providing an additional layer of botanical and geographical resonance to the name's Hebrew origin.
Susie entered the US Social Security top-1000 in 1880 — the first year of recorded data — and peaked in 1883 at its best rank of #67. It remained in the top-1000 through 1907, when it ranked #97 with 756 births, accumulating 17,154 total tracked births across roughly a quarter-century of presence. Its long nineteenth-century run reflects a time when diminutive pet forms were routinely registered as formal given names, a practice that faded through the early twentieth century.
Today Susie has a thoroughly vintage quality: bright and friendly, carrying the warmth of the pet-form tradition without the formality of Susan. Recorded variants include Susi, Suzi, Suzie, and Suzy — four phonetically identical spellings that reflect the name's playful, informal character and the wide latitude parents have traditionally taken with its written form.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Susie
US Popularity History (1880–1907)
Annual US births named Susie by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 1900 with 947 girls named Susie (girl rank #80 that year).
Where it stands today: in 1907, ranked #97 for girls (756 US births). That's 17 places below its 1900 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Variant Forms
| Name | Meaning | Gender | Origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Suzy | Lily. Variant Of Susannah. In The Apocryphal Book Of Tobit Susannah Courageously Defended Herself Against Wrongful Accusation. White Lilies Grew In The Biblical City Of Susa In Persia. | Female | English |
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Compare Susie to Other Popular Names
Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Susie against today's most popular girls-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).