Susana
Feminine · “lily”
Susana is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 20,999 girls against 52 boys since 1880.
Susana is a lily in Hebrew — shoshannah — and the same word gave the Persian city of Susa its name, and the flower on Iran's ancient seals.
How old is the name Susana?
Susana first appears in US birth records in 1881 — 144 years ago. The typical Susana alive today was born around 1986, making them about 39 years old. About 19,000 people named Susana are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Susana most popular?
Susana peaked in 1976, reaching #457 nationally. Today it ranks #2239, 1,782 places below that high. See the whole 1976 chart.
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Where it comes from
From sšn to Susana
The story of Susana
Shoshannah probably came into Hebrew from Egyptian, where sšn named the lotus, and the Persian city of Susa appears to carry the same word. The story of Susanna and the elders, in the Greek additions to Daniel, gave the name to Christian Europe. Susana appears in American records in current use.
Meaning
lily, lotus
From the Hebrew shoshannah, 'lily' or 'lotus', itself likely from the Egyptian sšn, the lotus. The Persian capital Susa is generally derived from the same word. Susana is the Spanish and Portuguese spelling. The chain is documented.
How the name formed
- sšn
- shoshannah
- Susanna
- Susana
Related forms: Susana · Susana · Susanna
Pronouncing Susana
soo-SAH-nah
Three syllables, stress in the middle. English Susanna is soo-ZAN-uh.
Nicknames for Susana
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1881
- Most girls named
- 1981472 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #457reached in 1976
- Change vs 2022
- −18.0%82 in 2025, from 100
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Susana in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Susana in Spanish — same name
- Susana in Portuguese — same name
- Susanna in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Susanas among us
people named Susana are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 19,601 born in 2025 was named Susana
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Susana
- #2239
- Susana on the 2025 chart
- #564
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Susana went to 82 girls in 2025, but Susanna, Susannah and Suzanna and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 6 spellings went to 433, which makes it the 564th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,675 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 3,712 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 19,601 for Susana itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Claudie test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Susana's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Claudie climbed just as high around 1900, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Claudie's path sketches the road Susana is walking now.
Susana sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Susana is headed
Susana should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Susana beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Susana in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That the word may run from Egyptian through Hebrew to a Persian city is a first-rate etymology.
- Susi and Ana are two short forms, both with real use.
- The lily meaning is concrete and beautiful.
- Susanna and Susannah are the commoner English spellings.
- It is period-coded to earlier generations.
- Spanish and English pronounce the s differently.
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Frequently asked
- How many Susanas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 19,000 people named Susana are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Susana?
- Susana is one of 6 recorded spellings. Susanna is the more common one — 197 births in 2025 against 82 for Susana.
- How popular is the name Susana in 2025?
- Susana ranks #2239 among US girl names in 2025, with 82 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Susana?
- About 1 in every 19,601 US girls born in 2025 was named Susana — 82 in all.
- Will my child share the name Susana with classmates?
- Susana will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Susana
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