Suzana
Just 163 women in Poland carry it, and newborns have all but stopped, so most people here have never met one. It's a rare variant of Zuzanna, from the Hebrew for "lily".
Suzana Pronunciation
Suzana is pronounced soo-ZAH-nah (/suˈzana/).
What Suzana means
Where Suzana comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Suzana goes back to the Hebrew shoshan, the old word for a lily. Polish speakers know the name best in its fuller variant, Zuzanna, and almost every Zuzanna picks up the diminutives Zuzia and Zuza before long. The meaning holds to the flower. It means lily, in Polish lilia.
The name has a long, documented life. The Book of Daniel tells of Susanna, a woman falsely accused by two elders and then cleared when the young Daniel questions her accusers apart. She is one of the earliest bearers anyone can name, and her story kept the name in circulation across Christian Europe for centuries.
Read a Polish class register today and the full Zuzanna rarely lasts until the first break. By then she answers to Zuzia, and the register keeps the formal version to itself. The plant that gave the name its sense sits behind all of these forms, from shoshan through Zuzanna down to a two-syllable Zuza.
How many people are named Suzana
1 in 138306 women in Poland is named Suzana. 163 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2532 among female names.
Suzana's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Suzana as a middle name
Suzana is a first name for 163 women in Poland and a middle name for another 11, a 94/6 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2335th, between Stefany (11) and Tamira (11).
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#2333 Stacy11
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#2334 Stefany11
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#2335 Suzana11
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#2336 Tamira11
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#2337 Tea11