Girls' name · peaked in 1967

Suzette name popularity since 1925

16,905 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Suzette. Half of them were born in 1966 or earlier, so the typical Suzette is about 60 years old in 2026. Suzette peaked in 1967 as the #342 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.

US babies since 1925: 16,905; Named Suzette, 1925–2025
Peak year: 1967; #342 for girls that year
Typical age: About 60; Median birth year 1966
In 2025: Not top 1,000; #4,743 for girls in 2025
Girls / boys: 100.0% girls; 16,900 girls · 5 boys
Most popular in: Louisiana; 2.26× its national share

Peak year is the year Suzette made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.

Suzette births per year, 1925–2025

The biggest year by count was 1964. Measured as a share of all babies, Suzette peaked in 1967.

Fastest rise: Between 1955 and 1960, Suzette became 1.9× more common, from 1 in 6,720 baby girls to 1 in 3,550.
Steepest fall: Between 1971 and 1976, its share of baby girls fell by 59%, from 1 in 3,710 to 1 in 8,990.

Shaded on the chart. Both compare Suzette's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Suzette.

Decade by decade

Babies named Suzette in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).

Decade	Girls	Boys	Rank
1925–29	54	0	–
1930s	194	0	#1,908
1940s	1,374	0	#1,046
1950s	3,128	0	#539
1960s	6,155	5	#354
1970s	2,722	0	#670
1980s	1,028	0	#1,162
1990s	956	0	#1,300
2000s	675	0	#1,623
2010s	414	0	#3,342
2020–25	200	0	#4,743

Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000.

Generation fingerprint

42.8% of babies named Suzette from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Baby Boom years (1946–1964). The full split by generation:

Where Suzette is most popular

The index compares Suzette's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Suzette.

State	Index	Babies
Louisiana	2.26×	551
California	1.80×	2,587
Michigan	1.55×	805
New York	1.42×	1,465
Wisconsin	1.33×	356

Other spellings

Spellings that sound like Suzette and were given to at least 1,000 girls from 1925 to 2025, with the year each one was most popular.

Spelling	Girls	Peak year
Suzette (this page)	16,900	1967
Susette	1,042	1967

Names with a similar story

Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Suzette's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Suzette.

Names from the same era

Other common names that peaked within two years of Suzette (1967).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data