Susannah

Where Susannah comes from

The dictionaries list Susannah as a given name — a female given name from Hebrew, variant of Susanna — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Hebrew
Along the way
  1. 1882
    Debut at its peak, #740
    #740 among girls with 7 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  2. 1883
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  3. 1899
    Susannah Mushatt Jones born
    American supercentenarian
  4. 1939
    Susannah York born
    English film, stage and television actress
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hebrew, variant of Susanna.
Namesakes
  • Susannah York · English film, stage and television actress, 1939–2011
  • Susannah Mushatt Jones · American supercentenarian, 1899–2016
  • Susannah Harker · British actress, born 1965
  • Susannah Grant · American film director and screenwriter, born 1963
  • Susannah Constantine · British fashion designer and journalist, born 1962

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.