# Susannah (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/susannah/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Hebrew |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 7,784 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 7,784 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,030, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 78 | 2,391 |
| 2012 | 106 | 1,903 |
| 2013 | 97 | 2,018 |
| 2014 | 93 | 2,093 |
| 2015 | 81 | 2,313 |
| 2016 | 94 | 2,092 |
| 2017 | 81 | 2,300 |
| 2018 | 62 | 2,778 |
| 2019 | 66 | 2,648 |
| 2020 | 79 | 2,276 |
| 2021 | 61 | 2,816 |
| 2022 | 53 | 3,120 |
| 2023 | 45 | 3,519 |
| 2024 | 63 | 2,744 |
| 2025 | 70 | 2,536 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 35 | 989 |
| 2012 | 26 | 1,253 |
| 2013 | 26 | 1,291 |
| 2014 | 13 | 2,058 |
| 2015 | 23 | 1,405 |
| 2016 | 12 | 2,233 |
| 2017 | 16 | 1,817 |
| 2018 | 14 | 1,977 |
| 2019 | 14 | 1,940 |
| 2020 | 10 | 2,449 |
| 2021 | 10 | 2,499 |
| 2022 | 9 | 2,673 |
| 2023 | 6 | 3,598 |
| 2024 | 10 | 2,574 |
| 2025 | 6 | 3,705 |

## People named Susannah

- Susannah York, English film, stage and television actress (1939–2011)
- Susannah Mushatt Jones, American supercentenarian (1899–2016)
- Susannah Harker, British actress
- Susannah Grant, American film director and screenwriter
- Susannah Constantine, British fashion designer and journalist
- Susannah Townsend, English hockey player
- Katharine Susannah Prichard, Australian author (1883-1969)
- Susannah Maria Cibber, English singer and actress
- Susannah Cahalan, American journalist and writer
- Susannah Fielding, English actress
- Susannah Hornebolt, English artist (1503-1545)
- Susannah Lazar, American medical physicist, amateur astronomer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.