Zsuzsanna
Barely present in Poland: just 58 women carry this spelling, and no girls were given it last year. It traces back to the Hebrew name behind Zuzanna, with the sense of "lily".
Zsuzsanna Pronunciation
Zsuzsanna is pronounced ssoos-SAHN-nah (/ssusˈsanna/).
What Zsuzsanna means
Where Zsuzsanna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zsuzsanna is the Hungarian spelling of a name Polish families know better as Zuzanna. The root is Hebrew. In shoshannah the old word means lily, and Polish keeps that sense in the plain lilia.
The name reached Europe through scripture. A woman named Susanna stands trial in the Book of Daniel, falsely accused and then cleared. Another Susanna walks with Jesus in the Gospel of Luke, one of the women who support his work. The flower meaning came first, and these biblical women carried the name outward from there.
In a Polish class register you might find one Zuzanna and, beside her, the Hungarian Zsuzsanna of a family with roots across the border. At home she answers to Zuzia, or shorter still, Zuza. Her imieniny falls on 11 August.
Zsuzsanna, Zuzanna, Zuzia, Zuza: four steps back to one Hebrew word for the lily.
How many people are named Zsuzsanna
1 in 388687 women in Poland is named Zsuzsanna. 58 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4897 among female names.
Zsuzsanna as a middle name
Zsuzsanna is a first name for 58 women in Poland and a middle name for another 25, a 70/30 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1441st, between Zipora (25) and Akter (24).
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#1439 Yasemin25
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#1440 Zipora25
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#1441 Zsuzsanna25
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#1442 Akter24
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#1443 Anda24