Suzanne
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Form of Susan, well established in Ireland
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/suˈzæn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Suzanne is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Ireland it is the 12th most common given name.
- FRFrance≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 170as Susan
- IEIreland≈1 in 189as Susan
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 Suzanne itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #55 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 652 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,700,000 named Susan, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Susan in US United States, GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines and 4 more and סוזן in FR France.
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)
From Hebrew Shoshannah ‘lily’. Cited as a recent, newly coined/non-inflecting source for surnames.
Sources 1
- Tên Họ Người Việt Nam
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
How Suzanne is read(measured from records)
Suzanne is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English79%
Form of Susan, well established in Ireland.
as a nameIrish first names
- French6.9%
From Hebrew Shoshannah ‘lily’. Cited as a recent, newly coined/non-inflecting source for surnames.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
From Hebrew Shoshannah via Greek/Latin, 'lily'
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
a female given name, equivalent to English Susan
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Suzanne, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Suzanne 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈6,700,000 est. | ≈1 in 209 | — | Susan | 90 |
| US United States | #19 | 979,771as Susan | 1 in 340 | 979K | Susan | 652 |
| GB United Kingdom | #16 | ≈390,000 est. | ≈1 in 170 | 27 | Susan | 381 |
| EG Egypt | #159 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 576 | listed | Susan | 74 |
| PH Philippines | #104 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 629 | — | Susan | 146 |
| SE Sweden | #329 | 51,220as Susanne | 1 in 199 | 51K | Suzanne | 103 |
| FR France | — | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 292K | סוזן | 46 |
| DK Denmark | #158 | 29,668as Susanne | 1 in 198 | 30K | Susan | 128 |
| IE Ireland | #12 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 189 | — | Susan | 152 |
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); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Suzanne is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
French form of Susanna, now also used in the English-speaking world.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Biblical. See }Susanna and Susan in main dictionary. Also: Susanne.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
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)
- Suzanne Curchodb. 1737CHFrench-Swiss salonist and writer (1737-1794)
- Suzanne Valadonb. 1865FRFrench painter (1865—1938)
- Suzanne Lenglenb. 1899FRFrench tennis player
- Annie Girardotb. 1931FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress (1931-2011)
- Stéphane Audranb. 1932FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress (1932–2018)
- Suzanne Somersb. 1946USAmerican actress (1946–2023)
- Suzanne Collinsb. 1962USAmerican television writer and novelist
- Sheryl Crowb. 1962USnot in their usual nameAmerican musician (born 1962)
- Melissa Georgeb. 1976AUnot in their usual nameAustralian actress
- Michelle Dockeryb. 1981GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress
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 101 sources across 56 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 292K | #72 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 189K | #295 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 3.1K | #816 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 1.9K | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 683 | #482 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 96 | #295 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 75 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1989 | 7 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- Is Suzanne a male or female name?
- Suzanne 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.
- What are other forms of the name Suzanne?
- In the etymology graph, Susan, Susanne and Suzan are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Suzanne?
- A machine transcription gives /suˈzæn/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Suzanne mean?
- In English, Form of Susan, well established in Ireland.
- Where does the name Suzanne come from?
- From Hebrew Shoshannah ‘lily’. Cited as a recent, newly coined/non-inflecting source for surnames. Recorded by Tên Họ Người Việt Nam.
- In which country does Suzanne have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.7 million people named Susan in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Suzanne?
- In the United States, the national register counted 979,771 people named Susan in 2020, about 1 in 340 residents.
- How common is Suzanne compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Suzanne is the 12th most common given name of 14,976 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Suzanne?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/suzanneThe 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, “Suzanne” — the 12th most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.