Susanna
Susanna reached its high-water mark in 1958 at number 551, and has been recorded 19,987 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,173rd. About 16,000 Susannas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 41.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Susanna
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 19,987
- Estimated living today
- 16,000
- Median age today
- 41
- Peak year
- 1958
- Best rank
- 551st
- Rank in 2025
- 1,173rd
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Susannas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 19,987 babies given the name since 1880, about 16,000 are alive — 78 in every hundred. Roughly 3,100 of them are children and 2,600 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1984 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Hebrew
From the New Testament form.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Susannas
- Susanna Tamaro (born 1957)Italian writer
- Susanna Clarke (born 1959)British author
- Susanna Thompson (born 1958)American actress
- Susanna Hoffs (born 1959)American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress
- Susanna Agnelli (1922–2009)Italian politician, businesswoman and writer
- Susanna Kallur (born 1981)Swedish hurdler
- Susanna M. Salter (1860–1961)American politician and activist
- Susanna Mälkki (born 1969)Finnish conductor and cellist
People named Susanna with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Susanna is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Susanna is most concentrated in Pennsylvania (2.0×), California (1.9×), Texas (1.5×), Indiana (1.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1958
The most popular girls’ names the year Susanna peaked:
Susanna elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy girls | Susanna | 3,793 | — |
| England and Wales girls | Susanna | 717 | 641st |
| Norway girls | Susanna | 340 | 298th |
| Ireland girls | Susanna | 229 | 194th |
| Poland girls | Susanna | 223 birth registrations | 229th |
| Scotland girls | Susanna | 173 | 312th |
| France girls | Susanna | 110 | 3,233rd |
| Northern Ireland girls | Susanna | 69 | 221st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Susanna: rank by region
In 2024, Susanna was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Susanna | 334 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Susanna by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 2 | 544th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Susanna among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Susanna | 9,767 | 56,761 |
| the Netherlands girls | Susanna | 6,029 | 13,940 |
| the Netherlands boys | Susanna | — | 145 |
Among girls in Finland this is mostly a middle name: of the 56,761 who carry it, 9,767 go by it.
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026, the Netherlands on 1 January 2018 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Susanna lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,742 women called Susanna were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Girona | Susanna | 329 | 0.795 | 189 |
| Barcelona | Susanna | 814 | 0.267 | 355 |
| Tarragona | Susanna | 106 | 0.242 | 442 |
| Lleida | Susanna | 47 | 0.211 | 471 |
| Balears, Illes | Susanna | 41 | 0.065 | 1,071 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Susanna | 64 | 0.062 | 1,152 |
Listed in 21 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 31 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Susanna against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.