Susman

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Susman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: (i) Anglicization of German Sussmann, a variant of Suss; (ii) from Yiddish Zusman, literally ‘sweet man’.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 508K(measured from records)
  • SISlovenia1 in 15K
  • ZASouth Africa≈1 in 256K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

655 people, 2010

Sources
231 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

(i) Anglicization of German Sussmann, a variant of Suss; (ii) from Yiddish Zusman, literally ‘sweet man’.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Where in the world(measured from records)

Susman 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.

Where Susman is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States6551 in 508K693Susman231
ZA South Africa≈220 est.≈1 in 256K—Susman18
SI Slovenia1411 in 15K141—2
MA Morocco≈110 est.≈1 in 330K—Susman5
GB United Kingdom≈90 est.≈1 in 727K70Susman59
AU Australia≈83 est.≈1 in 307K—Susman36
CA Canada≈75 est.≈1 in 503K—Susman27

655 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Susman is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Colombia, Uruguay

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Şuşman

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Șuşman

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Malaysia, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Șușman

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Susmán

  • Turkish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Romania, United States

    Also written Şuşman, Suşman, Șușman

  • Romanian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Șușman, Sușman

31 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Susman 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 Basque, SUSMAN ( zusman V-m, L-ain, R-uzt ap. A). "Husmeo. Zusman dabil, anda husmeando" A.

    as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia

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)

1850190019502000Margarete Susman, b. 1872France Susman, b. 1927Todd Susman, b. 1947William Susman, b. 1960Galyn Susman, b. 1964

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 17 sources across 10 countries.

Reference works 2

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 Susman mean, and where does it come from?
(i) Anglicization of German Sussmann, a variant of Suss; (ii) from Yiddish Zusman, literally ‘sweet man’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
In which country does Susman have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 655 people named Susman, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled susman.
Where is Susman most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Susman is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 15 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Susman?
In the United States, the national register counted 655 people named Susman in 2010, about 1 in 508 thousand residents.

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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, “Susman”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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