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Susannah

#2,536 in 2025Girls' name

Lily, through Susanna

Susannah has been given to 7,784 babies in the U.S. since 1882. In 2025 it ranked #2,536 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1975, with 152 recorded.

Babies named Susannah, 2025

1 in 47,400

Susannah over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Susannah: meaning, origin, and history

Lily, through Susanna

Hebrew

What Susannah means

Susannah belongs to the name family reached through Susannah → Susanna. Its meaning is “lily”.

Origin, language, and formation

Susannah is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Susanna.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,784 girls were recorded with the name Susannah between 1882 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 152 in 1975; its best national rank was #804 in 1882.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,276 in 2020 to #2,536 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,313 in 2015 to #2,536 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 Susannah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 47,400
70 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 23,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,536
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
32,828 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Susannah 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 32,828 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Susannah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Susannahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Susannah was born before 1985 — so the typical Susannah is around 40 today.

Median birth year
1985
About 40 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
18.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
26.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
7,123
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1970s — 18.3% of all recorded uses (1,422).

Is Susannah 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
+208
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−260
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−223
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.86×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
46.1%
Peak was 1975 (152)
Years since peak
50
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#804
1882

Spellings of Susannah

Susannah is not the most common spelling — Savannah is, with 67.8% against Susannah's 2.8%.

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 Susannah is used

Across 2016–2025, Susannah was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 58,179 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

13 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Carolina1 in 33,333
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in 33,333
  3. 3Tennessee1 in 33,333
  4. 4Texas1 in 33,333
  5. 5Illinois1 in 50,000
  6. 6Indiana1 in 50,000
  7. 7Minnesota1 in 50,000
  8. 8Virginia1 in 50,000

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.

Susannah around the world

Where Susannah 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
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1974–2021
    #792
    in 2021
  • Northern Ireland
    1997–2021
    #446
    in 2021
  • Ireland
    1965–2014
    #876
    in 2014
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1947–2013
    #536
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Susannah

People whose public names include Susannah, 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.

Susannah in other languages

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

SueSusiSuziSusanSusieSuzanSuzieSusanaSusannZuzanaSusannaSusanneSuzanneZuzannaShoshannahZsuzsaZsuzsannaZsuzsánna

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

Susannah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,536
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 260
Best rank ever
#804
1882
Peak year
1975
152 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,784
Count in 2025
70

Names similar to Susannah

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

SusannaSusanneAlannahJohannahSavanahSusannSusanaShekinahSuzannahEliyanahAminahAriannahAlanahMakennahJennahSusanahAliannahDinahJannahAlaynahSakinahSusetteAmeenahArianah

Names with a curve like Susannah

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

TamarAdriaRanaHolleyMarlenaJoiMirnaCorrinaKamiLisetteLissetteMonika

Sibling names for Susannah

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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