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Shoshana

#1,682 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Susanna

Shoshana has been given to 5,682 babies in the U.S. since 1948. In 2025 it ranked #1,682 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 152 recorded.

Babies named Shoshana, 2025

1 in 27,000

Shoshana over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shoshana: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Susanna

Hebrew

What Shoshana means

Shoshana is a form of Susanna.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Shoshana → Susanna. The family’s meaning is “lily”, recorded in English with the source elements šōšannā.

Origin, language, and formation

Shoshana is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Shoshana comes through Hebrew שׁוֹשַׁנָּה.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Susanna.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,682 girls were recorded with the name Shoshana between 1948 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 152 in 2022; its best national rank was #1,230 in 1984.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,615 in 2020 to #1,682 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,848 in 2015 to #1,682 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Shoshana?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 27,000
123 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 13,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,682
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
18,683 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shoshana sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 18,683 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shoshana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shoshanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shoshana was born before 2001 — so the typical Shoshana is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
19.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
50.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,675
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Choose a decade

2010s — 19.9% of all recorded uses (1,130).

Is Shoshana rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+110
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−67
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+166
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.10×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
80.9%
Peak was 2022 (152)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,230
1984

Spellings of Shoshana

Shoshana is the most-used spelling, taking 87.3% of the 6,505 babies given a near-identical spelling.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Shoshana is used

Across 2016–2025, Shoshana was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 820 girls, against 1 in 6,209 across all states with data. It was least common in Michigan (1 in 100,000).

1122 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 820
  2. 2New York1 in 2,703
  3. 3Maryland1 in 3,846
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in 16,667
  5. 5Florida1 in 20,000
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 20,000
  7. 7California1 in 25,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 25,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Shoshana around the world

Where Shoshana ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • France
    1990–2023
    #6,142
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1976–2001
    #711
    in 2001

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Shoshana

People whose public names include Shoshana, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Shoshana in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Shoshana. Linked forms have their own page here.

SusanaSusannaShoshannaShoshannahŠošana

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Shoshana by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,682
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 67
Best rank ever
#1,230
1984
Peak year
2022
152 that year
First recorded
1948
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,682
Count in 2025
123

Names similar to Shoshana

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AudrianaItzayanaEmilianaLillyanaAubrianaGiulianaSantanaYulianaDarianaViridianaAndrianaMontanaJordanaAriyanaLilyanaGeorgianaTatyanaLillianaShoshannaMarlanaKristianaIleanaSavanaAbriana

Names with a curve like Shoshana

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Shoshana, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

AyeshaFarahIlanaEleniElysiaAnnalisaShayMikaDevorahTovaYaelAmberly

Sibling names for Shoshana

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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