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Suzanna

#2,813 in 2025Girls' name

Lily, through Susanna

Suzanna has been given to 9,648 babies in the U.S. since 1892. In 2025 it ranked #2,813 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1973, with 185 recorded.

Babies named Suzanna, 2025

1 in 54,300

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Suzanna: meaning, origin, and history

Lily, through Susanna

Hebrew

What Suzanna means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Suzanna 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, 9,648 girls were recorded with the name Suzanna between 1892 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 185 in 1973; its best national rank was #751 in 1973.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,217 in 2020 to #2,813 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,843 in 2015 to #2,813 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 Suzanna?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 54,300
61 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 26,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,813
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
37,672 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Suzanna 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 37,672 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Suzanna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Suzannas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Suzanna was born before 1979 — so the typical Suzanna is around 46 today.

Median birth year
1979
About 46 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
16.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
19.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
8,623
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 16.5% of all recorded uses (1,591).

Is Suzanna 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
+3
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+404
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+30
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
0.98×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
33.0%
Peak was 1973 (185)
Years since peak
52
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#751
1973

Spellings of Suzanna

Suzanna is not the most common spelling — Suzanne is, with 54.6% against Suzanna's 2.4%.

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 Suzanna is used

Across 1910–2025, Suzanna was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 30,531 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 11,111
  2. 2Texas1 in 16,667
  3. 3Arizona1 in 20,000
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 20,000
  5. 5Michigan1 in 25,000
  6. 6Ohio1 in 25,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 33,333
  8. 8Illinois1 in 33,333

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

Suzanna around the world

Where Suzanna 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
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1974–2014
    #681
    in 2014
  • Northern Ireland
    2004–2010
    #430
    in 2010
  • Ireland
    1964–2013
    #660
    in 2013
  • France
    1901–2025
    #4,326
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,104
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1947–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Suzanna

People whose public names include Suzanna, 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.

Suzanna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,813
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 404
Best rank ever
#751
1973
Peak year
1973
185 that year
First recorded
1892
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,648
Count in 2025
61

Names similar to Suzanna

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

SuzetteAviannaMadonnaAryannaCorinnaRoxannaEliannaRihannaRosannaRhiannaAliannaBreonnaBrionnaBryannaSusannaAiyannaJohnnaLadonnaIvannaJeannaLiliannaKiannaLeeannaDayanna

Names with a curve like Suzanna

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

LindyElviaJannaRosarioJanellSilviaRoxannaValenciaStarlaLeeannMarlenaAnnemarie

Sibling names for Suzanna

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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