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Saturday, January 9, 1971
On Saturday, the number of girls and women in the United States with the first name “Susan” has crossed 1,000,000 for the first time. The name “Susan” has been very common for baby girls for the past 25 years; last year, it was the fifteenth most popular name for girls, given to 15,738 baby girls in 1970, bringing the overall total to 999,695 since records began in 1880. In 1957, it was number two and given to 45,948 baby girls. The record for the highest number of baby girls with this name is 47,419, and this record was set 16 years ago in 1955. The Social Security Administration (SSA) keeps track of birth certificates and social security documents, and this allows the SSA to collect statistics about births and popularity of names.
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