Suamico is a village in Brown County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 11,346 at the period of the 2010 census. Suamico is part of the Green Bay Metropolitan Statistical Area, and contains the neighborhood community of Flintville.

“The Indian reveal Oussuamigong, now spelled Suamico, has several disputed meanings. Father Chrysostom Verwyst explains the meaning as ‘place of the yellowish-brown beaver.’ Father Jones translates it as ‘at the beaver’s tale.’ Rev. E.P. Wheeler of Ashland, whose psychiatry of the Wisconsin Indians has made him an authority, says it means ‘yellow address place.’ It has as well as been accepted that it means ‘point or tail of land,’ or ‘the beaver’s tail,’ which suits us best.”
It is believed the name comes from an Indian word meaning small or Tiny beaver, although this has not been distinct with certainty. The original settlement of Suamico was a small fishing community upon Green Bay. Little evidence of it, apart from some small housing plots, remains.

Suamico is pronounced (swam ĭ kō). The publicize Suamico is believed to have come from the Menominee Indians which means: Mäte Sue’mako Tusi’niniu, “Great Sand Bar People,” on the sand dunes at what is now called gigantic Suamico, on Green Bay. Other sources with indicate that the post stands for: beaver tail, yellow beaver, or swan.

Big Suamico was the unofficial read out for the river, township, and village called Suamico. It was used to distinguish themselves from the Little Suamico River and Township snappishly north in Oconto County. The Suamico and Fort Howard Road was the first confirmed county road in Brown County laid out between immense Suamico and Fort Howard in 1849–1850. It followed a former Indian trail. The Suamico River flows generally eastward through Pittsfield and Suamico Townships into Green Bay.