Susana
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from Hebrew Susannah, 'lily'; biblical/apocryphal name and saint's name
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Susana is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country, where it is the 31st most common given name.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 221(inferred from the name graph)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 227
- ESSpain1 in 526
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Susana itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (inferred from the name graph)
- #388 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 436 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 221 (inferred from the name graph)
≈210,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Argentina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Suzana in HR Croatia, SI Slovenia and Сузана in MK North Macedonia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Hebrew Susannah, 'lily'; biblical/apocryphal name and saint's name
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Susana counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #31 | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 221 | 78 | Susana | 152 |
| ES Spain | #76 | 95,034 | 1 in 526 | 95K | Susana | 230 |
| PH Philippines | #349 | ≈91,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Susana | 77 |
| BR Brazil | #849 | 71,147as Suzana | 1 in 3K | 74K | Susana | 147 |
| US United States | — | 46,458 | 1 in 7.2K | 46K | Susana | 436 |
| PT Portugal | #39 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 227 | listed | Susana | 167 |
| HR Croatia | #130 | 9,201as Suzana | 1 in 459 | 9.2K | Suzana | 100 |
| MK North Macedonia | #87 | 7,811as Сузана | 1 in 272 | 7.8K | Сузана | 30 |
| SI Slovenia | #89 | 5,425as Suzana | 1 in 388 | 5.4K | Suzana | 43 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); the pt-irn-lista-nomes register; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); State Statistical Office — living population names; SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Susana is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, Hebrew Shushannah, from shus "lily, white lily" + hannah "grace": "gracious lily".
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
From Hebrew. See }Susanna in main dictionary. T
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In French, Forme espagnole/portugaise de Suzanne.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Lirio agraciado
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Russian, var of Sasona.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Rozala of Italyb. 1000BEnot in their usual nameCountess of Flanders (968–987) and Queen of the Franks (996)
- Susana Giménezb. 1944ARArgentine actress and businesswoman
- Susana Dosamantesb. 1948MXMexican actress (1948-2022)
- Susana Higuchib. 1950PEPeruvian politician (1950–2021)
- Susana Martinezb. 1959USAmerican attorney and politician
- Paulina Rubiob. 1971MXnot in their usual nameMexican singer (born 1971)
- Susana Díazb. 1971ESSpanish politician
- Susana Gonzálezb. 1973MXMexican actress
- Jamalab. 1983UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian singer (born 1983)
- Karla Souzab. 1985MXnot in their usual nameMexican actress (born 1985)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 98 sources across 47 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 95K | #52 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 95K | #104 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 46K | #949 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 23K | #1,255 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 20K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 20K | #1,073 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 148 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 82 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 79 | #1,073 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 78 | #855 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 67 | #949 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 18 | #4,035 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Susana mean, and where does it come from?
- from Hebrew Susannah, 'lily'; biblical/apocryphal name and saint's name Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- What are other forms of the name Susana?
- In the etymology graph, Suzana, Sanna and Sanni are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Susana a male or female name?
- Susana is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Susana have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 206 thousand people named Susana in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled susana.
- How common is the name Susana?
- In Spain, the national register counted 95,034 people named Susana, about 1 in 526 residents.
- How common is Susana compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Susana is the 31st most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Susana?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/susanaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Susana” — the 31st most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.