Shushan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Biblical name
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃuːʃæn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shushan is a surname 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.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 170as Susan(inferred from the name graph)
- IEIreland≈1 in 189as Susan
- DKDenmark1 in 198as Susanne
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 Shushan 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 170 (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,700,000 named Susan, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est., as Susan
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 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 name
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shushan 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 |
| 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); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Sam Shushanb. 1922botanist
- Itzik Shushanb. 1960ILcompositeur et acteur, connu pour Jaffa (2009), Ha-Mashgihim (2012) et Kavod (2010)
- Esty Shushanb. 1977ILIsraeli journalist
- Ron Shushanb. 1993ILIsraeli footballer
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)
Attested in 27 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 113 | #147,221 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 111 | #148,347 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 16 | #104,899 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 16 | #29,808 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Shushan mean, and where does it come from?
- Biblical name Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How do you pronounce Shushan?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃuːʃæn/ (IPA) for Hebrew.
- In which country does Shushan 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 Shushan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 979,771 people named Susan in 2020, about 1 in 340 residents.
- How common is Shushan compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Shushan is the 12th most common given name of 14,976 given names 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/shushanThe 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, “Shushan” — the 12th most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.