Susann
Feminine · “lily”
Susanna's story is a courtroom drama. Two elders spy on her bathing, demand she sleep with them, and accuse her of adultery when she refuses; she is condemned, and a young Daniel stops the execution by cross-examining the two men separately about which tree they saw it under. They give different trees. It may be the earliest detective story anyone wrote down.
How old is the name Susann?
Susann first appears in US birth records in 1910 — 115 years ago. The typical Susann alive today was born around 1954, making them about 71 years old. About 2,300 people named Susann are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Susann most popular?
Susann peaked in 1943, reaching #691 nationally. Today it ranks #13208, 12,517 places below that high. See the whole 1943 chart.
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Where it comes from
From shoshannah to Susann
The story of Susann
The story of Susanna belongs to the Greek additions to Daniel and is in Catholic and Orthodox Bibles rather than Protestant ones, which is why it is better known in Europe than in America. The name spread through Christian Europe anyway and became a standard English one after the Reformation. German writes Susann and Susanne with a doubled n, following its own spelling rules, and American records carry Susann from 1910, peaking in the early 1940s. It is one of the few American spellings that follows a German convention rather than an English one.
Meaning
lily
From the Hebrew shoshannah, which names a flower — a lily in most translations, though a lotus or a rose have both been argued, since the word covers more than one plant. It is one of the few Hebrew women's names that is simply a flower, without a sentence attached.
How the name formed
- shoshannah
- Susanna
- Susanne
- Susann
Related forms: Susanne · Suzanne · Shoshana · Susana · Susann
Pronouncing Susann
soo-ZAN
Two syllables with the stress at the back, which the doubled n signals. German says it in three — zoo-ZAH-nuh — sounding the final e that this spelling drops.
Nicknames for Susann
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
- 1910
- Most girls named
- 1943121 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #691reached in 1943
- Change vs 2006
- −14.3%6 in 2025, from 7
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.
Susann in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Susanne in German — same name
- Suzanne in French — same name
- Shoshana in Hebrew — related form
- Susana in Spanish — same name
- Susann in Swedish — same name
Susanns among us
people named Susann are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 267,878 born in 2025 was named Susann
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Susann
- #13208
- Susann on the 2025 chart
- #734
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Susann went to 6 girls in 2025, but Susan is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 228, which makes it the 734th most-given girls’ name of the year — 12,474 places above the chart.
- Susan222
- Susann6
About 1 girl in 7,049 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 267,878 for Susann 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 Palma test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Susann's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Palma climbed just as high around 1914, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Palma's path sketches the road Susann is walking now.
Susann 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
Susann beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Susann in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is a single flower and needs no explanation.
- Sue and Susie are both entirely established and require nothing of anybody.
- It is a standard German and Swedish spelling rather than an American variation.
- The story behind it is genuinely gripping and takes three sentences to tell.
- Susan and Suzanne are both far commoner in America and will be written instead.
- It belongs to a mid-century generation and places a woman's age immediately.
- The doubled n reads as an error to English speakers who do not know the German convention.
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Feminine · #13208 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Susanns are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,300 people named Susann are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Susann?
- Susann is one of 2 recorded spellings. Susan is the more common one — 222 births in 2025 against 6 for Susann.
- How popular is the name Susann in 2025?
- Susann ranks #13208 among US girl names in 2025, with 6 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Susann?
- About 1 in every 267,878 US girls born in 2025 was named Susann — 6 in all.
- Will my child share the name Susann with classmates?
- Susann will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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