Shoshanna

#10,791 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Susanna

Shoshanna has been given to 823 babies in the U.S. since 1960. In 2025 it ranked #10,791 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1980, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Shoshanna, 2025

1 in 368,000

Shoshanna over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shoshanna: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Susanna

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Shoshanna means

Shoshanna is a form of Susanna.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Susanna.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 823 girls were recorded with the name Shoshanna between 1960 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 26 in 1980; its best national rank was #3,305 in 1980.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,692 in 2015 to #10,791 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 Shoshanna?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 368,000; 9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 179,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #10,791; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 255,323 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Shoshanna 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shoshanna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shoshannas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shoshanna was born before 1995 — so the typical Shoshanna is around 30 today.

Median birth year: 1995; About 30 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 20.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 38.0%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 823; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 20.9% of all recorded uses (172).

Is Shoshanna 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: +185; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: −4,099; Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago: 0.47×; Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak: 34.6%; Peak was 1980 (26)
Years since peak: 45; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 34.5% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,305; 1980

Spellings of Shoshanna

Shoshanna is not the most common spelling — Shoshana is, with 67.8% against Shoshanna's 9.8%.

Shoshana67.8%5,682
Hosanna22.4%1,875
Shoshanna9.8%823

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 Shoshanna is used

Across 1910–2025, Shoshanna was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,657,691 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —
2Illinois1 in —
3New York1 in —

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. Shoshanna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shoshanna around the world

Where Shoshanna 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
2016–2023
#5,688
in 2023
Canada
1996–1997
#2,176
in 1997
South Australia
1972–1972
#722
in 1972

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Shoshanna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #10,791
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: New entry
Best rank ever: #3,305; 1980
Peak year: 1980; 26 that year
First recorded: 1960
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 823
Count in 2025: 9

Names similar to Shoshanna

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

Sibling names for Shoshanna

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

For a sister

Charissa Tosha Malissa Andria Catrina Chrystal Christen Daniel

For a brother

Jerod Torrey Derrell Elizabeth Jarrod Jerrod Whitney Edwardo

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