Entry № 10163 · Hebrew origin

Susannah Susannah — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ soo-ZAN-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Lily"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew)

A name that means "lily".

Susannah (שׁוֹשַׁנָּה) comes from the Hebrew shoshannah, meaning "lily." In the Old Testament Apocrypha, Susanna is the heroine wrongly accused by two elders and vindicated by the young Daniel.

Susannah peaked at #225 in the U.S. in 1985. Stephen Foster's 1848 song "Oh! Susanna" made the name an American standard.

Lily. The Apocrypha's vindicated heroine.

The name in its native script.

שׁוֹשַׁנָּה
Transliteration
Shoshannāh
Pronunciation
/ suːˈzæn.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Susannah stands.

Susannah 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.

Susannahs before her.

Real people
Susannah Constantine
British fashion presenter.
born 1962
Susannah York
British actress.
1939 – 2011
In fiction
Susanna
Heroine of the Apocrypha.
Old Testament Apocrypha

Names connected to Susannah.

The number behind Susannah.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Susannah reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.