Suzan

given name · Turkish · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Suzan is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is the 14th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Turkish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a female given name, meaning ardent, enthusiastic.

rarermore common
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 158◐
  • AUAustralia1 in 193
  • DKDenmark1 in 198

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.5M ●

across 11 countries

#102 ●

of 16M given names

7 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
587 ●

17M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 198 ◐

Denmark

Spellings & scripts●

SusanLatin · English●13M records
סוזןHebrew · Hebrew●46K records
ᲡუსანGeorgian · Georgian●598 records
수전Hangul · Korean●289 records
ՇուշանArmenian · Armenian●53 records
СузанCyrillic · Uzbek●4 records
সুসানBengali · Bangla●2 records

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Susan in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 17 more, סוזן in FR France, IL Israel, MA Morocco, Suzanne in NL Netherlands, SE Sweden and Suzann in BR Brazil.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

a female given name, meaning ardent, enthusiastic.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Suzan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GB United Kingdom#141,310,8961.1M rec.—4Susan295
US United States#21979,20713M rec.1 in 340979KSusan587
AU Australia#21600,475429K rec.—96Susan277
CA Canada#19356,481345K rec.—5Susan260
FR France—292,320△1.5K rec.1 in 232292Kסוזן45
TR Türkiye#382256,334332K rec.——Suzan77
PH Philippines#115149,928147K rec.——Susan137
ES Spain#66495,034△36K rec.1 in 52695KSusan140
IT Italy#8992,45593K rec.—1Susan123
DE Germany#28279,23375K rec.—1Susan193
IL Israel#21560,05596K rec.—773סוזן77
SE Sweden#37451,220△9.2K rec.1 in 19951KSuzanne100

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Turkish240K47%
  • English132K26%
  • Portuguese37K7%
  • Arabic21K4%
  • German8.6K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Turkish239,88047%
English132,21426%
Portuguese37,1417%
Arabic21,0594%
German8,5552%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Suzan is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name178K records spelled Suzan18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Netherlands, Germany, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Süzan, Su-Zan, Śuźan, Sûzan, Suzán

  • Portuguese given name48K records spelled Suzan10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Peru, Argentina

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, Italian

    Also written Súzan, Suzán, Süzän, Süzan, ٍsuzan

  • a separate given name9.6K records spelled Suzan6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, India

    Also written Su-Zan, Suzán, Suzān, Sûzan, Sūzān

  • Spanish given name8.8K records spelled Suzan15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Peru, France

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French

    Also written Susan, Süzan, Śuzan, Sûzañ, Šüžañ

  • Swahili given name6.3K records spelled Suzan5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Africa, Tanzania, United States, Kenya

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho, Kinyarwanda

    Also written Süzan

  • Polish given name4.7K records spelled Suzan76 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

    Also written Susan, Сусан, Сюзан, Сузан, Сьюзан

  • Finnish given name1.0K records spelled Suzan4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Hungary, Netherlands

    Languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian

    Also written Šuzan

50 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Suzan is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Turkish, 1. Yakan, yakıcı. 2. Ateşli, coşkulu.

    as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

  • In Serbo-Croatian, tearful

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

0200400600190019502000484 · 1955

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Suzan in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1898–2024
Yearrecords
18985
19187
19195
19205
19217
192310
19247
19256
192712
19288
19296
19309
19318
193214
193311
193419
193514
193615
193732
193838
193947
194046
194176
1942103
1943122
1944145
1945162
1946232
1947241
1948263
1949263
1950249
1951242
1952300
1953369
1954462
1955484
1956419
1957359
1958356
1959331
1960289
1961242
1962241
1963251
1964231
1965193
1966157
1967141
1968155
1969118
197087
1971104
197297
197372
197465
197552
197647
197746
197842
197946
198046
198127
198242
198341
198432
198530
198629
198723
198829
198932
199037
199122
199233
199319
199426
199521
199624
199718
199819
199923
200018
200127
200218
200313
200418
200518
200621
200714
200813
200914
201018
201110
201215
201316
20146
201510
20167
201718
201810
20198
20208
20215
20228
20235
20245

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 106 years between 1898–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

190019502000Suzan Kahramaner, b. 1913Suzan Avcı, b. 1937Suzan Farmer, b. 1942Suzan Shown Harjo, b. 1945Suzan DelBene, b. 1962Suzan Anbeh, b. 1970Suzan van der Wielen, b. 1971Lies Visschedijk, b. 1974Suzanne Tamim, b. 1977Suzan Lamens, b. 1999

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 69 sources across 38 countries.

Official registers attesting Suzan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202011K#2,378
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—2.9K#1,089
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20222.4K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—2.4K#4,494
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—2.3K#5,491
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—794#2,002
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020690—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—518#2,448
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—366#692
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2022295#3,507
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—166#2,344
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—130#4,607

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 397 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Suzan?
We estimate roughly 1.5 million people bear Suzan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Suzan have the most bearers?
Suzan is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled susan.
How common is Suzan compared with other names?
In the United Kingdom, Suzan is the 14th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.
Is Suzan a male or female name?
Suzan is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Suzan mean?
Recorded meaning: a female given name, meaning ardent, enthusiastic.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Suzan” — the 14th most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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