Suzette
given name · Latin script
Meaning: French pet form of }Suzanne, now also used in the English-speaking world
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 37 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
/ˌsuˈzɛt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Suzette is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In Jamaica it is the 86th most common given name.
- JMJamaica≈1 in 3.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 6.3K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 7.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 423 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)French pet form of }Suzanne, now also used in the English-speaking world.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Suzette, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Suzette counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #896 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | — | Suzette | 95 |
| US United States | — | 16,531 | 1 in 20K | 17K | Suzette | 423 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈7,800 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | — | Suzette | 65 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 20K | listed | Suzette | 133 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Suzette | 141 |
| JM Jamaica | #86 | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Suzette | 19 |
| NZ New Zealand | #746 | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Suzette | 43 |
| GY Guyana | — | 136 | 1 in 5.5K | 136 | — | 3 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Suzette is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Suzhou, Su-chou, Suchow,
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In French, Diminutif de Suzanne.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Pet form of sUZANNE.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
French: pet form of SUZANNE .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Lilian Suzette Gibbsb. 1870GBBritish botanist, botanical collector, scientific illustrator, explorer and mountaineer (1870-1925)
- Suzette Harbinb. 1915USAmerican actress and dancer
- Suzette Haden Elginb. 1936USAmerican linguist and writer (1936-2015)
- Suzette Sandozb. 1942CHHonorary Professor of Family and Estate Law, former Member of the Grand Council of the Canton of Vaud, former Swiss National Councillor
- Pam Grierb. 1949USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (born 1949)
- Suzette M. Malveauxb. 1966USAmerican jurist
- Suzette Jordanb. 1974INIndian women's-rights activist and anti-rape campaigner
- Suzette Leeb. 1975USathletics competitor
- Maria Taylorb. 1987USnot in their usual nameAmerican sportscaster
- Suzette KimballUSAmerican geologist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)56 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 17K | #1,795 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 136 | #458 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 29 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 20 | #1,795 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1967 | 5 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2018 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | A Concise Dictionary of First Names (Hanks & Hodges, 2001) | — | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | The Penguin Book of Baby Names (David Pickering) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Suzette mean, and where does it come from?
- French pet form of }Suzanne, now also used in the English-speaking world. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What are other forms of the name Suzette?
- In the etymology graph, Susan, Sue and Suzanne are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Suzette a male or female name?
- Suzette is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), France (INSEE, 1978), Netherlands (Meertens NVB) and Brazil (IBGE, 2022), among others.
- How do you pronounce Suzette?
- A machine transcription gives /ˌsuˈzɛt/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Suzette have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Suzette in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled suzette.
- How common is the name Suzette?
- In the United States, the national register counted 16,531 people named Suzette in 2020, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
- How common is Suzette compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Suzette is the 896th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Suzette?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/suzetteThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Suzette” — the 896th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.