In 2025, 197 US girls were named Susanna, making it the 1,181st most common girls’ name of the year, up 176 places from #1,357 in 2024. That is 28 more than the 169 girls named Susanna in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #336, reached in 1886. The most girls given the name in a single year was 311, in 1958. For comparison, it was #1,254 in 2015 and #715 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Susanna in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 21 babies with the name. In all, 19,987 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 2,496 babies named Susanna.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,700 US girls were named Susanna; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 197. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,159 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Susanna ranked highest in Ohio in 2025, at #793 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Susan (1,126,022 babies since 1880), Suzanne (219,801 babies since 1880), Sue (145,055 babies since 1880) and Susie (86,067 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Suzzanna are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, Finnish, Italian and Swedish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.