Suzana
Feminine · “Hebrew shoshannah”
Suzana is standard in five languages and a variant in English. Serbian, Croatian, Romanian, Portuguese and Slovenian all write it this way, with one n and no h, and only English insists on Susanna or Susannah. A spelling can be entirely orthodox almost everywhere and look like a mistake in one place.
How old is the name Suzana?
Suzana first appears in US birth records in 1946 — 79 years ago. The typical Suzana alive today was born around 1987, making them about 38 years old. About 1,200 people named Suzana are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Suzana most popular?
Suzana peaked in 1975, reaching #2169 nationally. Today it ranks #8860, 6,691 places below that high. See the whole 1975 chart.
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Where it comes from
From shoshannah to Suzana
The story of Suzana
Spelling standards are national rather than natural and a name crossing borders acquires a different orthodox form in each. English settled on Susan, Susanna and Susannah, with the s doubled and the h optional. French uses Suzanne with a z, which English then borrowed as a separate name. Portuguese and the South Slavic languages use Suzana with one n, following their own rules about doubled consonants, which they generally do not have. Romanian uses the same. German uses Susanne. Each of these is correct in its own system and each looks wrong in the others, and a person carrying one of them in an English-speaking country will be corrected constantly by people who assume there is a single right answer. There is not. What there is, is a set of national conventions that happen to disagree.
Meaning
Hebrew shoshannah, a lotus or lily
From Hebrew shoshannah, a flower, borrowed from Egyptian sšn, the lotus. English versions translate it as lily, following the Greek, but the plant is more likely a water lily. Suzana is the standard form in Serbian, Croatian, Romanian, Slovenian and Portuguese. It peaks in the American data in 1975.
How the name formed
- shoshannah
- Susanna
- Suzana
Related forms: Suzana · Suzana · Suzana
Pronouncing Suzana
soo-ZAH-nah
Three syllables, stress on the second. The Slavic and Portuguese readings agree closely; English speakers say soo-ZAN-ah with a short stressed vowel.
Nicknames for Suzana
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
- 1946
- Most girls named
- 197539 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2169reached in 1975
- Change vs 2024
- −8.3%11 in 2025, from 12
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.
Suzana in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Suzana in Portuguese — same name
- Suzana in Croatian — same name
- Suzana in Romanian — same name
Suzanas among us
people named Suzana are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 146,115 born in 2025 was named Suzana
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Suzana
- #8860
- Suzana on the 2025 chart
- #564
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Suzana went to 11 girls in 2025, but Susanna, Susana and Susannah 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 — 8,296 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 3,712 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 146,115 for Suzana 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 Aphrodite test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Suzana's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Aphrodite climbed just as high around 1923, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Aphrodite's path sketches the road Suzana is walking now.
Suzana 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
Suzana beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Suzana 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 settled and the story attached to it is a strong one.
- It is the orthodox spelling in five languages.
- Suzy and Zana are two very different short forms.
- In English it will be corrected to Susanna or Susannah.
- The stressed vowel differs between English and the other languages.
- Susana with an s is the standard Spanish form.
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Frequently asked
- How many Suzanas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Suzana are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Suzana?
- Suzana is one of 6 recorded spellings. Susanna is the more common one — 197 births in 2025 against 11 for Suzana.
- How popular is the name Suzana in 2025?
- Suzana ranks #8860 among US girl names in 2025, with 11 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Suzana?
- About 1 in every 146,115 US girls born in 2025 was named Suzana — 11 in all.
- Will my child share the name Suzana with classmates?
- Suzana will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Suzana
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