Sue

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Sue: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Sue: Recorded since 1952, with a gap of 20 years, it reached #83 in 1956, and it was last ranked in 2015.

3registrars recorded it
16times a registrar ranked it
64years from first to last
#83highest recorded position
4groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Sue's record

Absent from every published list for 20 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2015

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3795
1997	#3174
2008	#3397
2010	#4012
2011	#5785
2015	#5730

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 6 of the 20 years from 1996 to 2015.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1952–2015 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1952
First recorded at #99 among girls in New South Wales, Australia in 1952 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
New South Wales, Australia · Girls
Highest recorded1952–1958
Highest recorded position: #83 among girls in New South Wales, Australia, in 1956 (recorded 1952–1958).
New South Wales, Australia · Girls
Most recent2015
Most recently recorded at #5730 among girls in England and Wales, in 2015.
England and Wales · Girls

Sue appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is New South Wales, Australia · Girls, which has ranked it in 6 years beginning in 1952, and has registered 468 births with the name.

Sue across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Sue's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3795 (1996)	#3174 (1997)	#5730 (2015)	6 of 20	24 (1996–2015)	6 (2008)
New South Wales, Australia · Girls	#99 (1952)	#83 (1956)	#97 (1958)	6 of 7	468 (1952–1958)	87 (1956)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#299 (1979)	#258 (1980)	#523 (1982)	4 of 4	37 (1979–1982)	17 (1980)

Sue by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Sue in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	7	2 of 10	4
2000s	6	1 of 10	6
2010s	11	3 of 10	4

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Sue appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1952 to 2015. Highest recorded position: #83 in New South Wales, Australia in 1956.

Sue's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2015	England and Wales	female	#5730	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4012	5	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3397	6	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3174	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3795	3	High	Verified
1958	New South Wales, Australia	female	#97	83	Insufficient	Not yet available
1956	New South Wales, Australia	female	#83	87	Insufficient	Not yet available
1955	New South Wales, Australia	female	#90	82	Insufficient	Not yet available
1954	New South Wales, Australia	female	#94	76	Insufficient	Not yet available
1953	New South Wales, Australia	female	#94	74	Insufficient	Not yet available
1952	New South Wales, Australia	female	#99	66	Insufficient	Not yet available
1982	Republic of Ireland	female	#523	3	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	female	#471	4	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	female	#258	17	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	female	#299	13	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1952 and 2015, ranked in 16 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #83, first reached in 1956.

It held a top-100 place in 6 years, 5 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 87 births, registered in New South Wales, Australia in 1956.

Its record falls into 7 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 20 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1979, and 44 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

6decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 6 decades →
5 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
7separate stretches the record falls into6 to 9 separate stretches →
20 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period20 or more years missing →
6years ranked inside the top 1005 to 9 years in the top 100 →
5 yearslongest unbroken top-100 run5 to 9 years running →
#5,730position in 2015, its most recent recorded year
44 yearsyears between the first and last registrar to record itAcross 41 years or more →
87births registered in its largest year, 195650 to 99 births →
1952first year inside a top 100First reached the top 100 in the 1950s →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Sufian · #1431, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Paidi · #84, 21y
Nixon · #81, 19y
Fianna · #89, 21y
Kaye · #89, 20y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Lynn · #83, 66y
Lois · #82, 35y
Stewart · #84, 69y
Virginia · #82, 57y

Sue was ranked #83 in New South Wales, Australia · Girls in 1956. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1952 to 2015. Highest recorded position: #83 in New South Wales, Australia in 1956. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Sue

Sue at a glance

What stands out in Sue's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Sue across 3 official records

Sue by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Sue appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Sue

Sue at a glance

What stands out in Sue's record

Sue across 3 official records

Sue by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Sue appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Sue