Suşan
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Suşan is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 19th most common given name. Recorded meaning: English form of the biblical Susanna, from Biblical Hebrew שׁוֹשַׁנָּה (šōšannā, “lily”), ultimately from Egyptian z:S:n-M9 (zšn).
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 150(inferred from the name graph)
- IEIreland≈1 in 170
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 190
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 Suşan itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #55 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 652 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 151 (inferred from the name graph)
979,771 people, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Susan in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 5 more and Suzanne in SE Sweden.
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)- Biblical Hebrewשׁוֹשַׁנָּהšōšannā“lily”(measured from records)
- Egyptianz:S:n-M9zšn(measured from records)
English form of the biblical Susanna, from Biblical Hebrew שׁוֹשַׁנָּה (šōšannā, “lily”), ultimately from Egyptian z:S:n-M9 (zšn).
Cited for this meaning 8
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Suşan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #19 | 979,771 | 1 in 340 | 979K | Susan | 652 |
| GB United Kingdom | #16 | ≈460,000 est. | ≈1 in 151 | 27 | Susan | 381 |
| PH Philippines | #104 | ≈230,000 est. | ≈1 in 506 | — | Susan | 146 |
| CA Canada | #14 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 222 | 5 | Susan | 349 |
| AU Australia | #18 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 231 | 96 | Susan | 295 |
| SE Sweden | #329 | 51,220as Susanne | 1 in 199 | 51K | Suzanne | 103 |
| IE Ireland | #12 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 174 | — | Susan | 152 |
| DK Denmark | #158 | 29,668as Susanne | 1 in 198 | 30K | Susan | 128 |
| NZ New Zealand | #17 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 186 | 12 | Susan | 172 |
979,771 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
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 Suşan mean, and where does it come from?
- English form of the biblical Susanna, from Biblical Hebrew שׁוֹשַׁנָּה (šōšannā, “lily”), ultimately from Egyptian z:S:n-M9 (zšn). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 6 other sources.
- Is Suşan a male or female name?
- Suşan 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 Suşan have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 980 thousand people named Suşan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled susan.
- How common is the name Suşan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 979,771 people named Suşan in 2020, about 1 in 340 residents.
- How common is Suşan compared with other names?
- In the United States, Suşan is the 19th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/su%C5%9FanThe 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, “Suşan” — the 19th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.