Susannah
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Variant of Susanna. This is the form of the name used in the Old Testament
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sʉzænə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Susannah is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- AUAustralia
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Ancient GreekΣουσάνναSousánna(inferred from the name graph)via Susanna
- Biblical Hebrewשׁוֹשַׁנָּהšōšannā(inferred from the name graph)via Susanna
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
Variant of Susanna. This is the form of the name used in the Old Testament. The tale of Susannah, wife of Joachim, and the elders who falsely accused her of adultery, is to be found in the apocryphal book that bears her name, and was popular in the Middle Ages and later. Variant: Suzanna.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Susannah is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Hebrew: lily or rose
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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)
- Susannah Wedgwoodb. 1765GB(1765-1817)
- Susannah Mushatt Jonesb. 1899USAmerican supercentenarian (1899–2016)
- Susannah Yorkb. 1939GBEnglish film, stage and television actress (1939–2011)
- Susannah Heschelb. 1956USAmerican academic (born 1956)
- Susannah Constantineb. 1962GBBritish fashion designer and journalist
- Susannah Grantb. 1963USAmerican film director and screenwriter
- Susannah Melvoinb. 1964USAmerican musician
- Susannah Harkerb. 1965GBBritish actress
- Susannah Fieldingb. 1985GBEnglish actress
- Susannah Cahalanb. 1985USAmerican journalist and writer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 43 sources across 27 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name 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 are other forms of the name Susannah?
- In the etymology graph, Susan, Sue and Suzanne are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Susannah mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Susanna. This is the form of the name used in the Old Testament. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Susannah a male or female name?
- Susannah 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 Susannah have the most bearers?
- Susannah is most frequently recorded in the United States.
- How do you pronounce Susannah?
- A machine transcription gives /sʉzænə/ (IPA) for English.
What do you want to know about Susannah?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/susannahThe 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, “Susannah”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.