Entry № 10160 · English origin

Susan Susan — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SOO-zan /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Lily (Susan B. Anthony; Susan Sontag)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "lily (susan b. anthony; susan sontag)".

Susan is from the Hebrew Shoshannah (lily). Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) — American suffragist who alongside Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded the National Woman Suffrage Association, was arrested in 1872 for voting illegally, and whose face appears on the US dollar coin. Cancer Diary author and AIDS activist.

Lily. Susan B.

The name in its native script.

Susan
Transliteration
Susan
Pronunciation
/ ˈsuː.zən /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Susan stands.

Susan does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Susans before her.

Real people
Susan B. Anthony
American suffragist.
1820 – 1906
Susan Sontag
American essayist.
1933 – 2004
In fiction
Susan
C.S. Lewis's Narnia.
1950

Names connected to Susan.

The number behind Susan.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Susan reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.