Susanna
Susanna was given to 197 girls in 2025, #1,181 among girls’ names; 19,987 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 15,500 Americans named Susanna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (78% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 23 and 58.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Susanna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Susanna mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Susanna is “a female given name from Hebrew.” Its etymology gives the sense “lily” (שׁוֹשַׁנָּה).
From Ancient Greek Σουσάννα (Sousánna), the New Testament form of Hebrew שׁוֹשַׁנָּה (šōšannā, “lily”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Susanna?
#1,181 among girls’ names, 2025
Susanna rose from #1,254 in 2015 to #1,181 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.11 to 0.12 per 1,000.
311 babies in 1958, the peak
Susanna peaked in 1958, when 311 girls were given it, #552 among girls’ names. The 197 births of 2025 are 63% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 197 | #1,181 | 0.12 |
| 2024 | 169 | #1,357 | 0.10 |
| 2023 | 178 | #1,291 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 158 | #1,429 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 150 | #1,438 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 158 | #1,388 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 180 | #1,286 | 0.11 |
| 2018 | 157 | #1,423 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 159 | #1,435 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 194 | #1,263 | 0.11 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 196 | #1,254 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 159 | #1,434 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 172 | #1,360 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 193 | #1,254 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 170 | #1,362 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 156 | #1,454 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 164 | #1,431 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 163 | #1,452 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 195 | #1,267 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 187 | #1,280 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 182 | #1,251 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 196 | #1,160 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 199 | #1,111 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 188 | #1,114 | 0.10 |
| 2001 | 183 | #1,144 | 0.10 |
| 2000 | 178 | #1,146 | 0.10 |
| 1999 | 158 | #1,209 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 184 | #1,063 | 0.10 |
| 1997 | 200 | #979 | 0.11 |
| 1996 | 224 | #883 | 0.13 |
| 1995 | 202 | #935 | 0.11 |
| 1994 | 207 | #917 | 0.12 |
| 1993 | 202 | #936 | 0.11 |
| 1992 | 216 | #907 | 0.12 |
| 1991 | 227 | #874 | 0.12 |
| 1990 | 233 | #845 | 0.12 |
| 1989 | 229 | #830 | 0.12 |
| 1988 | 223 | #818 | 0.13 |
| 1987 | 245 | #739 | 0.14 |
| 1986 | 264 | #691 | 0.15 |
| 1985 | 236 | #735 | 0.14 |
| 1984 | 257 | #669 | 0.15 |
| 1983 | 263 | #657 | 0.16 |
| 1982 | 255 | #692 | 0.15 |
| 1981 | 268 | #662 | 0.16 |
| 1980 | 256 | #680 | 0.15 |
| 1979 | 275 | #634 | 0.17 |
| 1978 | 243 | #663 | 0.16 |
| 1977 | 269 | #625 | 0.18 |
| 1976 | 242 | #641 | 0.17 |
| 1975 | 241 | #638 | 0.17 |
| 1974 | 221 | #676 | 0.15 |
| 1973 | 239 | #634 | 0.16 |
| 1972 | 266 | #601 | 0.17 |
| 1971 | 255 | #643 | 0.15 |
| 1970 | 215 | #716 | 0.12 |
| 1969 | 241 | #639 | 0.14 |
| 1968 | 223 | #650 | 0.14 |
| 1967 | 210 | #667 | 0.13 |
| 1966 | 200 | #694 | 0.12 |
| 1965 | 204 | #689 | 0.12 |
| 1964 | 215 | #709 | 0.11 |
| 1963 | 218 | #682 | 0.11 |
| 1962 | 213 | #708 | 0.11 |
| 1961 | 203 | #732 | 0.10 |
| 1960 | 224 | #680 | 0.11 |
| 1959 | 286 | #586 | 0.14 |
| 1958 | 311 | #552 | 0.15 |
| 1957 | 266 | #594 | 0.13 |
| 1956 | 180 | #718 | 0.09 |
| 1955 | 138 | #824 | 0.07 |
| 1954 | 149 | #766 | 0.08 |
| 1953 | 146 | #756 | 0.08 |
| 1952 | 118 | #847 | 0.06 |
| 1951 | 123 | #808 | 0.07 |
| 1950 | 145 | #714 | 0.08 |
| 1949 | 139 | #720 | 0.08 |
| 1948 | 156 | #670 | 0.09 |
| 1947 | 127 | #765 | 0.07 |
| 1946 | 126 | #722 | 0.08 |
| 1945 | 119 | #687 | 0.09 |
| 1944 | 121 | #679 | 0.09 |
| 1943 | 108 | #750 | 0.08 |
| 1942 | 97 | #772 | 0.07 |
| 1941 | 91 | #750 | 0.08 |
| 1940 | 105 | #681 | 0.09 |
| 1939 | 77 | #782 | 0.07 |
| 1938 | 60 | #922 | 0.05 |
| 1937 | 73 | #808 | 0.07 |
| 1936 | 61 | #875 | 0.06 |
| 1935 | 52 | #964 | 0.05 |
| 1934 | 62 | #868 | 0.06 |
| 1933 | 55 | #920 | 0.05 |
| 1932 | 55 | #964 | 0.05 |
| 1931 | 53 | #957 | 0.05 |
| 1930 | 56 | #991 | 0.05 |
| 1929 | 77 | #808 | 0.07 |
| 1928 | 60 | #966 | 0.05 |
| 1927 | 60 | #986 | 0.05 |
| 1926 | 72 | #878 | 0.06 |
| 1925 | 77 | #851 | 0.06 |
| 1924 | 92 | #785 | 0.07 |
| 1923 | 63 | #926 | 0.05 |
| 1922 | 69 | #885 | 0.06 |
| 1921 | 84 | #802 | 0.07 |
| 1920 | 91 | #768 | 0.08 |
| 1919 | 92 | #733 | 0.08 |
| 1918 | 103 | #714 | 0.09 |
| 1917 | 97 | #702 | 0.09 |
| 1916 | 110 | #650 | 0.11 |
| 1915 | 108 | #637 | 0.11 |
| 1914 | 71 | #689 | 0.09 |
| 1913 | 52 | #737 | 0.08 |
| 1912 | 61 | #638 | 0.11 |
| 1911 | 42 | #675 | 0.10 |
| 1910 | 45 | #635 | 0.11 |
| 1909 | 32 | #716 | 0.09 |
| 1908 | 44 | #566 | 0.13 |
| 1907 | 45 | #543 | 0.14 |
| 1906 | 33 | #632 | 0.11 |
| 1905 | 36 | #586 | 0.12 |
| 1904 | 48 | #479 | 0.17 |
| 1903 | 35 | #556 | 0.13 |
| 1902 | 41 | #501 | 0.16 |
| 1901 | 28 | #600 | 0.12 |
| 1900 | 35 | #603 | 0.12 |
| 1899 | 39 | #475 | 0.17 |
| 1898 | 52 | #431 | 0.20 |
| 1897 | 36 | #489 | 0.15 |
| 1896 | 36 | #497 | 0.15 |
| 1895 | 50 | #402 | 0.21 |
| 1894 | 32 | #514 | 0.14 |
| 1893 | 48 | #389 | 0.23 |
| 1892 | 46 | #395 | 0.22 |
| 1891 | 37 | #411 | 0.20 |
| 1890 | 34 | #444 | 0.18 |
| 1889 | 25 | #511 | 0.14 |
| 1888 | 27 | #484 | 0.15 |
| 1887 | 31 | #395 | 0.21 |
| 1886 | 41 | #336 | 0.28 |
| 1885 | 27 | #401 | 0.20 |
| 1884 | 35 | #336 | 0.27 |
| 1883 | 22 | #409 | 0.20 |
| 1882 | 22 | #388 | 0.20 |
| 1881 | 21 | #372 | 0.23 |
| 1880 | 21 | #366 | 0.23 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Susanna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Susanna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 146 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Susanna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Susanna, and how old are they?
15,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 78% of the 19,987 Americans ever recorded as Susanna. The median Susanna alive today is 42 years old; half are between 23 and 58.
The 2020 Census counted 18,587 people named Susanna (18,575 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 15,140 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 470 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,760 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,530 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,650 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,860 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,210 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Susanna born?
The states with the most babies named Susanna are California, Texas and New York, with 42% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 2,500 | #1,354 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 1,455 | #1,608 | 1.0× |
| New York | 1,417 | #1,230 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 1,410 | #1,001 | 1.4× |
| Ohio | 765 | #793 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 654 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 444 | #1,021 | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 443 | #1,049 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 382 | #2,445 | 0.6× |
| Virginia | 337 | #1,027 | 0.7× |
Where Susanna is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Susanna is most over-represented in Pennsylvania: since 1910 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Susanna with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 77,670 babies since 1880, Susanna is the third most given (26% of them). In 2025 it was given to 197 of their 389 babies (51%), the most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Susanna
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Susanna and names like it
- Compare Susanna and SusanneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sSusanna peaked in 1958.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Susanna since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Susanna: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1958The year the most babies were named Susanna.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Susanna alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.