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Girl · English short form of a Hebrew name
Sue
Say it: SOO
Meaning
A short form of Susan or Susanna, from Hebrew Shoshannah, usually 'lily'.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Used as a full name in the US from the 1800s, and very common as a middle name in the mid-1900s.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1940s
In the United States
- 145,008 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1946, about 1 in 305 girls
- Fewer than 5 babies a year in 2020
Through the ages
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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