Suzannah

Where Suzannah comes from

The dictionaries list Suzannah as a given name — a female given name from Hebrew, variant of Susanna — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Hebrew
Along the way
  1. 1940
    First appearance
    #3,503 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1975
    Peak, #2,097
    41 babies named Suzannah — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2007
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #9,539.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hebrew, variant of Susanna.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Suzannah hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.