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Zuza

Zuza is the everyday short form of Zuzanna, tracing back to the Hebrew shoshannah, the lily. Fewer than 200 women carry it as their name on paper, so meeting one is rare.

Zuza Pronunciation

Zuza is pronounced ZOO-zah (/ˈzuza/).

Alive in 2025
178
Newborns 2025
8
National rank
#2387

What Zuza means

Where Zuza comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Zuza begins in Hebrew, in the word shoshannah, the lily. Polish took that flower in through the full form Zuzanna, and Zuza is the everyday name worn underneath it. The diminutive Zuzia sits between them, one degree softer.

The root means lily. It travels well. The Hungarian Zsuzsanna holds the same Hebrew stem, and the biblical Susanna of the Book of Daniel, accused and then cleared, carried the name across Christian Europe. That old story kept it in use long before any Zuza was written onto a Polish form at the urząd.

Zuzanna keeps her imieniny on 11 August. On that day the name stretches to full length, and by the next morning the class register has folded it back to Zuza. The lily stays underneath every version.

How many people are named Zuza

1 in 126651 women in Poland is named Zuza. 178 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2387 among female names.

People with the name Zuza 2019 → 2025
178 +90 since 2019
2020 101 +13
2021 119 +18
2022 134 +15
2023 151 +17
2024 161 +10
2025 178 +17

Zuza's popularity over time

8 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #785 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2012.

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8 newborns with the name Zuza in 2025
national rank #785 that year

Where Zuza is most popular

Zuza is most popular in Kuyavian-Pomeranian, 147% above the national average (7 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Silesian (+53%) and Świętokrzyskie (+39%). It is least common in Lower Silesian and Subcarpathian, 51% and 36% below average respectively.

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Zuza as a middle name

Zuza is a first name for 178 women in Poland and a middle name for another 22, an 89/11 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1554th, between Zehra (22) and Aileen (21).

As a first name
178
As a middle name
22
first name 89% middle name 11%
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