Zuzana
Most Poles have never met a Zuzana: only around 200 women carry it, and hardly any girls get the name now. It comes from the Hebrew Shoshannah and means lily.
Zuzana Pronunciation
Zuzana is pronounced zoo-ZAH-nah (/zuˈzana/).
What Zuzana means
Where Zuzana comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zuzana reaches back to the Hebrew Shoshannah, a word for the lily. That flower sits at the origin, plain and literal, before any later gloss was added. Long before it settled into Polish, the name belonged to a woman in the Book of Daniel, the Susanna falsely accused and then cleared, one of the oldest documented bearers anyone can point to.
Polish took the name in and softened it at home. Zuzanna became the fuller written form, while Zuzia and Zuza did the daily work, the versions called across a school register or shortened by a friend. A girl signs Zuzanna on an official form at the urząd and answers to Zuzia everywhere else.
The lily kept its hold on the meaning. In Polish the word is lilia, and it stayed attached to the name as a quiet fact of its Hebrew root rather than a decoration laid on top. Zuzana wears her name day on the eleventh of August. Three short syllables, one old flower, and the Hebrew Shoshannah still sitting underneath.
How many people are named Zuzana
1 in 106843 women in Poland is named Zuzana. 211 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2160 among female names.
Zuzana's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Zuzana as a middle name
Zuzana is a first name for 211 women in Poland and a middle name for another 19, a 92/8 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1692nd, between Zelda (19) and Żelisława (19).
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#1690 Yaren19
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#1691 Zelda19
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#1692 Zuzana19
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#1693 Żelisława19
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#1694 Aiko18