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Baby Name Susan is a Girl's Name of English Origin. Joan is one of my favorites.The classic, clean, strong names, such as Diane/Dianne, Anne, Meredith, and Ellen will very likely make a comeback!And also Joan! Boyle's audience may themselves be beyond prime child-naming years. They will want some relief from being in a crowd.I’m a 28 year-old Barbara. We love the name and everytime someone hears what it is they love that we used an old name!© 2014 CMI Marketing, Inc. All rights reserved.The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.Grandpa Confirms Beyonce & Jay Z's Twins' Arrival -- It's a Girl & a Boy!Beyonce Gives Birth & Welcomes Twins With Jay Z,Ryan Lochte Welcomes a Son With a Swoon-Worthy Name,Jill Duggar & Derick Dillard Announce Baby #2's Name,The Twins Are Here!

Susan has a substantial literary resume, including appearances in George Eliot's Mill on the Floss, Anthony Trollope's Barchester Towers, Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge and Jude the Obscure, and Charlotte Bronte's Shirley.

This once, top 1000 name, Susan is currently less popular. *Mouse over the charts or scroll down to the table for data details. I like my name, tho.My name is Susan and I have always loved my name. Its highest popularity RANKING of #2 was reached for the first time in 1957 and as recently as 1960.

And we used Susan as a middle name (after my mom and my sister-in-law). Apparently though it was popular enough prior to the fifties to hold onto sixth place in a most-popular names from 1913-2012 list. The others make sense, though I do like some of them!Most of these I admit feel stale to me, but I do love Nancy, Donna, Anne, and Martha.Becki, you’re right — many of these names were popular in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s and so now are the names of the mothers of young parents having babies and so are not attractive. ).Also, yes, everything Cary Grant says is amazing!Wow, whoever posted first was spot on with the associated names. Ellen has already enjoyed a modest revival in Britain, and my seven-year-old Small Child called one of her dolls Susan….I think we’ll all be surprised when many thousands of teenage Abby’s rebel and go to Gail, the same way this happened a dozen years ago with Andy’s moving to Drew. My mom’s name is Teresa and some of her sisters’ names are on this list as well. The names Christine, Jean, Ann, Susan, Janet, Maureen, Carol, Pauline, Joan and Pamela were all in the top 20 in 1944, but none are in the top 1,000 names for girls in 2018. There’s something so strong and revitalising about names such as Berte and Mildred and Joan. Another factor that we can’t really predict right now is what kinds of sounds are in style in the future; this explains why Amelia is skyrocketing up the charts while Agnes is still out of the mainstream.Well put, Namefan — I think you nailed that! Learn about the baby name Susan including baby name meaning, gender, origin, and more. As a boy’s name it’s never broke into the top 600 but became much more popular for girls.I agree with Becki too. Susannah seems able to hang with the Olivias, Carolines and Isabelles that are fashionable today. However, the name was bestowed upon the greatest number of babies in 1955 with 47,402 occurrences. I like that it's an old Hebrew name for a flower. In fact, I’m kind of surprised Ellen is falling… with all the other “el” names on the rise, Ellen seems like a safe & familiar choice with a trendy sound.I have to admit I’m glad to see Susan go (it’s my former legal name and I loathe it).Just reading through the list of names there, I think one reason they might be unpopular at the moment is because a lot of them are our mum’s names or friends of our mum’s names..that we don’t think of as potential names for our babies .Lisa is one of the most popular names for newborn girls in France.I know the most adorable little Meredith, so the idea of that name being “gone” is hard for me to grasp. Susan in 24 countries. These time-tested popular names were taken from a universe that includes 175,744,628 male births and 171,010,925 female births. As I was born in 1952 and my grandmother came from “Hardy Country”, (Dorset) maybe she liked it, and suggested it to my mum!I’m surprised that Deborah is not on the list. Then there’s Barbie, which just sets me up for self-esteem and body-image issues. My take on your list is that some of these names are/were classics. How popular is the name Susan?

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