Shoshan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Shushan, Iran
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Shoshan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country, where it is the 28th most common surname.
- BEBelgium1 in 1.5M(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 2.2M
- ILIsrael1 in 1.4Kas שושן
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 Shoshan 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.
- Israel (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 90 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.5M (inferred from the name graph)
6,312 named שושן, 2017
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled שושן in IL Israel, MA Morocco, QA Qatar and Shushan in ES Spain.
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)Shushan, Iran
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Shoshan is found
(measured from records)Shoshan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | #28 | 6,312as שושן | 1 in 1.4K | 6.3K | שושן | 75 |
| US United States | — | 718as Susa | 1 in 463K | 727 | Shoshan | 90 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | שושן | 1 |
| ES Spain | — | 74as Susa | 1 in 676K | 74 | Shushan | 2 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 775K | — | שושן | 3 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 39as Susa | 1 in 274K | 39 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 36as Susa | 1 in 152K | 36 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | — | 21as Susa | 1 in 265K | 365 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 8 | 1 in 2.2M | 26 | Shoshan | 6 |
| BE Belgium | — | 8 | 1 in 1.5M | 8 | Shoshan | 7 |
6,312 people counted by CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"), 2017. 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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); MVČR — living population register 2017; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Gabi Shoshanb. 1950ILIsraeli singer, musician and film actor (1950-2016)
- Gili Shushanb. 1973ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli actor
- Malkit Shoshanb. 1976ILIsraeli architect (born 1976)
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)Evidence
(measured from records)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Shoshan mean, and where does it come from?
- Shushan, Iran Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Shoshan?
- In Israel, the national register counted about 6.3 thousand people named שושן, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Qatar, Spain and Morocco; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Shoshan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Shoshan is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 1.5 million people — even though Israel holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Shoshan?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 8 people named Shoshan in 2007, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.
- How common is Shoshan compared with other names?
- In Israel, Shoshan is the 28th most common surname of 325,634 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shoshanThe 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, “Shoshan” — the 28th most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.