Entry № 9610 · Hebrew origin

Shoshana Shoshana — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ shoh-SHAH-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Lily / rose (Hebrew form of Susanna)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew)

A name that means "lily / rose (hebrew form of susanna)".

Shoshana is the modern Hebrew form of Susanna — from the Hebrew shōshannāh (lily or rose). Shoshana Roberts — American activist.

Lily / rose.

The name in its native script.

שׁוֹשַׁנָּה
Transliteration
Shōshannāh
Pronunciation
/ ʃoʊˈʃɑː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Shoshana stands.

Shoshana does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Shoshanas before her.

Real people
Shoshana Bean
American Broadway actress.
born 1977
Shoshana Damari
Queen of Hebrew song.
1923 – 2006
Shoshana Zuboff
American author.
born 1951
In fiction
Shosanna Dreyfus
Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds.
2009

Names connected to Shoshana.

The number behind Shoshana.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Shoshana reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.