Suzann
Feminine · “a lily”
Suzann is Suzanne and Susan meeting in the middle. It takes the z from the French spelling and the clipped ending from the English one, and lands on a form that neither language uses but that an American ear reads without hesitation.
How old is the name Suzann?
Suzann first appears in US birth records in 1916 — 109 years ago. The typical Suzann alive today was born around 1956, making them about 69 years old. About 3,200 people named Suzann are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Suzann most popular?
Suzann peaked in 1946, reaching #728 nationally. See the whole 1946 chart.
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Where it comes from
From shoshannah to Suzann
The story of Suzann
English has had this name in two shapes for centuries. Susan came through the Latin Susanna, kept the s, and settled into two syllables with the weight at the front. Suzanne came through French, which wrote the middle consonant as a z because that is the sound it makes between vowels, and put the weight at the back. American parents in the twentieth century had both in front of them and mixed the parts freely, producing Suzann, Susann, Suzanna, Suzette and Suzy. Suzann is the shortest of the z-spelled group: French in the middle, English at the end.
Meaningscholars disagree
a lily
The Hebrew shoshannah is generally read as a lily, though some argue for the lotus, and the word may go back further still to an Egyptian term for a flower. The name is older than the argument.
How the name formed
- shoshannah
- Susanna
- Suzanne
- Suzann
Related forms: Suzanne · Susanna · Zsuzsanna · Shoshana
Pronouncing Suzann
soo-ZAN
Two syllables with the weight at the back, following the French. Front-weighted SOO-zan, following Susan, is also heard and is not a mistake.
Nicknames for Suzann
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
- 1916
- Most girls named
- 1947129 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #728reached in 1946
- Change vs 2000
- −16.7%5 in 2013, from 6
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.
Suzann in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Suzanne in French — same name
- Susanna in Italian — related form
- Zsuzsanna in Hungarian — related form
- Shoshana in Hebrew — transliteration
Suzanns among us
people named Suzann are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Suzann sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Both halves are familiar, so the name is read correctly at sight.
- It carries three quite different short forms: Suzy, Sue and Zanna.
- The flower behind it is a pleasant meaning and one of the oldest attached to any European name.
- Suzanne, Susan, Susann and Suzanna are all in the record and will all be offered instead.
- Dropping the final e leaves the stress unmarked, so people will guess which syllable to lean on.
- It reads as a name of the middle of the twentieth century.
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Frequently asked
- How many Suzanns are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,200 people named Suzann are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Suzann in 2025?
- Suzann is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Suzann with classmates?
- Suzann will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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