Susanne
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in German: from Hebrew Shoshannah 'lily'; source of Heulsuse
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Susanne is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country, where it is the 47th most common given name.
- SESweden1 in 199(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 337
- ATAustria≈1 in 461
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 420 (measured from records)
- 1 in 198 (inferred from the name graph)
≈240,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Hebrew Shoshannah 'lily'; source of Heulsuse
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
How Susanne is read(measured from records)
Susanne 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.
- German46%
- English36%
A female given name from German [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], variant of 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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Susanne 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #47 | ≈240,000 est. | ≈1 in 337 | — | Susanne | 298 |
| SE Sweden | #146 | 51,220 | 1 in 199 | 51K | Susanne | 118 |
| DK Denmark | — | 29,668 | 1 in 198 | 30K | — | 5 |
| US United States | #877 | 25,061 | 1 in 13K | 25K | Susanne | 420 |
| AT Austria | #77 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 461 | 3.6K | Susanne | 155 |
| CH Switzerland | #54 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 789 | — | Susanne | 123 |
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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)
Susanne 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.
In Danish, a female given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Susan
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, Susanne (Suzanne) är den franska formen av → Susanna. Under 1900-talet har Susanne blivit en vanligare form än Susanna och under 1960-talet hörde namnet till de fem vanligaste bland nyfödda flickor i Sverige. Susan är en engelsk form. I den finlandssvenska almanackan 11 augusti.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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)
- Susanne Langerb. 1895USAmerican philosopher (1895–1985)
- Christiane Kubrickb. 1932DEnot in their usual nameGerman actress and painter (born 1932)
- Rotraut Susanne Bernerb. 1948DEGerman artist and illustrator (born 1948)
- Susan Blakesleeb. 1956USnot in their usual nameAmerican voice, stage and musical theatre actress
- Susanne Lotharb. 1960DEGerman actress (1960-2012)
- Nenab. 1960DEnot in their usual nameGerman singer and actress
- Susanne Bierb. 1960DKDanish film director (born 1960)
- Suzanna Riess-Passerb. 1961ATnot in their usual nameAustrian politician
- Susanne Georgib. 1976ADDanish singer
- Susanne Sundførb. 1986NONorwegian singer
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 81 sources across 44 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 51K | #72 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 30K | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 30K | #8 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 25K | #1,392 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 3.6K | #678 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 17 | #1,392 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 8 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2024 | 6 | #767 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Susanne mean, and where does it come from?
- from Hebrew Shoshannah 'lily'; source of Heulsuse Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- Is Susanne a male or female name?
- Susanne 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 Susanne?
- In the etymology graph, Susan, Suzanne and Suzan are forms of the same name in other languages; Susi is a recorded short or pet form.
- In which country does Susanne have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 238 thousand people named Susanne in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled susanne.
- Where is Susanne most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Susanne is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 198 people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Susanne?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 51,220 people named Susanne, about 1 in 199 residents.
- How common is Susanne compared with other names?
- In Germany, Susanne is the 47th most common given name of 156,202 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/susanneThe 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, “Susanne” — the 47th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.