Entry № 2334 · French, Hebrew origin

Suzanne Suzanne — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ soo-ZAN /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French, Hebrew
Meaning
"Lily (Suzanne Pleshette, The Bob Newhart Show; Suzanne Somers)"
Syllables
2
Rank · US 2025
№ 0
First recorded
Medieval (French)

A name that means "lily (suzanne pleshette, the bob newhart show; suzanne somers)".

Suzanne is the French form of Susanna — from the Hebrew *Shoshana* ("lily"). **A top-50 US baby name from 1942 to 1961**. **Suzanne Pleshette (1937-2008)** — **American actress; played Emily Hartley on *The Bob Newhart Show* (1972-1978); five consecutive Primetime Emmy nominations**. **Suzanne Somers (1946-2023)** — American actress; played Chrissy Snow on *Three's Company* (1977-1981) — fired in a contract dispute that was one of the first high-profile cases of pay parity for women in television; reinvented herself as a fitness entrepreneur with the ThighMaster (over 10 million sold). **Suzanne Vega (born 1959)** — *Tom's Diner* (1987) became one of the most-sampled songs in pop history and the audio used to develop the MP3 format. **Suzanne Collins (born 1962)** — author of *The Hunger Games* trilogy (over 100 million books sold). **Suzanne Farrell** — American ballerina; New York City Ballet muse of Balanchine. **The Leonard Cohen song *Suzanne* (1966)** — Cohen's most-covered song.

Subject of countless American TV-history retrospectives.

Lily. Suzanne Vega's Tom's Diner shaped the MP3 format; Suzanne Collins wrote The Hunger Games.

The name in its native script.

Suzanne
Transliteration
Suzanne
Pronunciation
/ suːˈzæn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Suzanne stands.

Current rank · 2025
№ 0 in the U.S.
All-time peak
№ 28 in 1949
Babies named Suzanne · last year
125 in the U.S.
First entered SSA top-1000
1880
Rank, 1995–2025 Lower = more popular
№25 №75 №150 №250 1995 2005 2015 2020 2025 PEAK · #28 NOW · —

Suzannes before her.

Real people
Suzanne Pleshette
American actress.
1937 – 2008
Suzanne Somers
American actress.
1946 – 2023
Suzanne Vega
American singer-songwriter.
born 1959
Suzanne Collins
American Hunger Games author.
born 1962
In fiction
Suzanne
Leonard Cohen's Suzanne.
1966

Names connected to Suzanne.

The number behind Suzanne.

8

The Authority

Suzanne reduces to eight — the number of French lily.

Why families chose this name.

"French lily. Seven letters. Suzanne."
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