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.

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

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2015

How to read this chart

A rank is a position in one registrar's list for one year.
Ranks from different countries are separate scales, so compare shapes, not numbers.
A rise in rank can be a small change in births, especially far down a list.

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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

Year-by-year storyFirst recorded, most recent, each country and each decade

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 Wales has recorded the most births with →

Full data tableEvery published rank and count

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.

Where Sue is officially recorded

3 official registrars have recorded Sue, between 1952 and 2015, in 16 of those 64 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Each mark is a year the registrar recorded the name; the diamond is that registrar's highest position. Gaps can mean a year was not published, not that the name went unused.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
New South Wales, Australia	1952–1958	6	#83 in 1956
Republic of Ireland	1979–1982	4	#258 in 1980
England and Wales	1996–2015	6	#3174 in 1997

Its high point came 41 years earlier in New South Wales, Australia (1956) than in England and Wales (1997).

No registrar recorded it for 20 years after 1958; it appears again in 1979.

Names measured beside itNeighbours, comparisons, related names and shared trajectories

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.

Alison#79
Penelope#80
Susanne#81
Joy#82
Lynn#84
Lynda#85
Dorothy#86
Fiona#87

What is known about Sue

How to read this

How often it is registered: Official record; 3 official registrars, 1952–2015.
Meaning: Not established; Not researched yet.
Origin: Not established; Not researched yet.
Pronunciation: Not established; Not recorded yet.

A claim marked not established does not mean the name lacks a meaning or is not widely used — only that Namewise has not 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 the data shows

Popularity journey

Sue across 3 official records

Sue by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Popularity data

Where Sue is officially recorded

Names published alongside Sue

What is known about Sue

Sue at a glance

Sue across 3 official records

Sue by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Names published alongside Sue