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Suzannah

#8,807 in 2025Girls' name

Lily, through Susanna

Suzannah has been given to 1,789 babies in the U.S. since 1940. In 2025 it ranked #8,807 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1991, with 53 recorded.

Babies named Suzannah, 2025

1 in 276,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Suzannah: meaning, origin, and history

Lily, through Susanna

Hebrew

What Suzannah means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Suzannah 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, 1,789 girls were recorded with the name Suzannah between 1940 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 53 in 1991; its best national rank was #2,131 in 1975.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,465 in 2020 to #8,807 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,948 in 2015 to #8,807 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 Suzannah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 134,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,807
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Suzannah 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Suzannah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Suzannahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Suzannah was born before 1989 — so the typical Suzannah is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
22.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
24.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,746
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 22.9% of all recorded uses (409).

Is Suzannah 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
+3,227
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+658
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,859
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.67×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
22.6%
Peak was 1991 (53)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,131
1975

Spellings of Suzannah

Suzannah is not the most common spelling — Suzanne is, with 47.9% against Suzannah's 0.39%.

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 Suzannah is used

Across 1910–2025, Suzannah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 835,938 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in —
  4. 4North Carolina1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Ohio1 in —
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in —
  8. 8Texas1 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. Suzannah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Suzannah around the world

Where Suzannah 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
    1996–2021
    #5,581
    in 2021
  • Scotland
    1976–2002
    #640
    in 2002
  • Northern Ireland
    1998–2004
    #372
    in 2004
  • South Australia
    1974–2012
    #563
    in 2012

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

Suzannah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,807
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 658
Best rank ever
#2,131
1975
Peak year
1991
53 that year
First recorded
1940
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,789
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Suzannah

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

EliyanahShekinahJohannahAriannahSuzanaSuzzanneMakennahAliannahSuzzetteSuzannaAlaynahSakinahAmeenahArianahAllanahBriannahSusannahHavannahElianahAyannahAviannahSuzetteSuzieGiannah

Sibling names for Suzannah

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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