Suzanna

Where Suzanna comes from

The dictionaries list Suzanna 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
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1892
    First appearance
    #1,171 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1945
    Suzanna Leigh born
    British actress
  3. 1973
    Peak, #749
    185 babies named Suzanna — more than any year before or since.
  4. 2000
    Suzanna von Nathusius born
    Polish child TV actress
  5. 2000
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,855.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hebrew, variant of Susanna.
Namesakes
  • Suzanna Leigh · British actress, 1945–2017
  • Suzanna von Nathusius · Polish child TV actress, born 2000
  • Suzanna Hamilton · British actress, born 1960
  • Suzanna Owíyo · Kenyan musician/singer, born 1975
  • Suzanna Lubrano · Dutch singer, born 1975

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.