Su

Where Su comes from

Clipping.
— Wiktionary's entry for Su
  • 1 syllable
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1935
    First appearance
    #3,742 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1957
    Peak, #2,416
    22 babies named Su — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1959
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,827.
  4. 1984
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Susan and of its variant forms.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.