Susanna is a female first name.
Susanna is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,236 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,235 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Susanna.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Susanna annualy. This means that there have been girls named Susanna who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Susanna have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Susanna even more than any other time: in 1884, it holds its present record of rank #323 in the list of the most popular girls' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Susanna was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Susanna has never been ranked higher than #323. In 2022, she rivaled the 1,296 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 156 girls named Susanna were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Susanna were born, there have been 216 newborns who received this name.
You may not know anyone named Susanna, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 38 states are home to women and girls named Susanna. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Susanna living in one state or another. If your name is Susanna and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In California, which has the most people named Susanna relative to the population, you still have to ask 6,087 women and girls their names before you hear Susanna as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a very popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 9.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter A is more common for girls' names.
With seven letters, the name Susanna has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 9.3% of all girls' names start with an S, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the girls' names that start with an S, Susan is the most common.
If your name is Susanna and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Susanna, you can simply say:
Sun
Unicorn
Sun
Apple
Nut
Nut
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Susanna
Susanna
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
U
S
A
N
N
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
S
U
S
A
N
N
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Susanna sounds like this:
