Siuzanna
The Polish variant of Zuzanna, from the Hebrew *shoshannah* for "lily". Only around 170 women carry the *siu-* spelling, so meeting one is memorable.
Siuzanna Pronunciation
Siuzanna is pronounced shoo-ZAHN-nah (/ɕuˈzanna/).
What Siuzanna means
Where Siuzanna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Siuzanna reaches back to the Hebrew shoshannah, which named the lily. The short meaning stays close to that root: lily, or in Polish lilia. The spelling with siu- follows the sound of the name as it traveled through other languages before it settled on a Polish page.
In Poland the standard form is Zuzanna, and Siuzanna stands beside it as a variant. Both carry the same flower and the same old story. That story is the biblical Susanna, the woman falsely accused in the Book of Daniel and cleared when the young Daniel questioned her accusers. Her name already meant the lily when the text was written.
Name-day falls on 11 August, in late summer. The lily meaning was never abstract. It was the plant itself, shoshan, before anyone read virtue into the bloom. On a class register her name may sit one letter apart from a Zuzanna two desks over.
How many people are named Siuzanna
1 in 129562 women in Poland is named Siuzanna. 174 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2417 among female names.