Susanna
A Hebrew name meaning "lily". In Poland it lives in the shadow of Zuzanna, the everyday form: Susanna itself is rare enough that most Poles have never met one, and it keeps fading year on year.
Susanna Pronunciation
Susanna is pronounced soo-SAHN-nah (/suˈsanna/).
What Susanna means
Where Susanna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Susanna reaches back to the Hebrew Shoshannah, a word for the lily. That flower is the whole story of the name, its short meaning kept intact from one language to the next: lily, or in Polish, lilia.
In the Book of Daniel, a woman named Susanna is falsely accused and then cleared by the young judge, and the name traveled with that account into Greek, Latin, and eventually Polish. Poland smoothed it into Zuzanna, the variant most children answer to on a school register today. From there come the softer home forms, Zuzia and Zuza.
A girl might sign Zuzanna at the urząd and stay Zuzia everywhere else. Her name day falls in August. Whatever spelling she keeps, the Hebrew root holds its single image: the lily.
How many people are named Susanna
1 in 35335 women in Poland is named Susanna. 638 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1180 among female names.
Susanna's popularity over time
2 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1836 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #1180 name among living women, even as it slips to #1836 among newborns.
Where Susanna is most popular
Susanna is most popular in Kuyavian-Pomeranian, 888% above the national average (4 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Subcarpathian (+348%) and Masovian (+52%).
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian4 girls born+888%
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Subcarpathian2 girls born+348%
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Masovian2 girls born+52%
Susanna as a middle name
Susanna is a first name for 638 women in Poland and a middle name for another 75, an 89/11 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 778th, between Rena (75) and Cirilla (74).
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#776 Maia75
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#777 Rena75
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#778 Susanna75
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#779 Cirilla74
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#780 Isabell74