Entry № 10063 · English origin

Sue Sue — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SOO /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Lily (Sue Bird, all-time WNBA assists leader)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "lily (sue bird, all-time wnba assists leader)".

Sue is the English short form of Susan / Susannah — from the Hebrew Shoshana ("lily"). Engaged to soccer star Megan Rapinoe in 2020; the two were on the cover of ESPN The Magazine Body Issue together. Sue Grafton (1940-2017) — American mystery novelist of the Alphabet Mysteries (A is for Alibi through Y is for Yesterday). Sue Storm — Fantastic Four. Sue Lyon — Lolita (1962).

Subject of countless WNBA retrospectives.

Lily (Sue Bird, all-time WNBA assists leader) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Sue
Transliteration
Sue
Pronunciation
/ suː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sue stands.

Sue does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Sues before her.

Real people
Sue Bird
American WNBA legend.
born 1980
Sue Grafton
American mystery novelist.
1940 – 2017
In fiction
Sue Storm
Fantastic Four.
1961

Names connected to Sue.

The number behind Sue.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sue reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.