Girl name origins & meanings
- Hebrew : Lily
Girl name variations
Family name origins & meanings
- English and Dutch : from the female personal name Susanna, Susanne (Middle English), Susanna (Dutch), from Hebrew Shushannah ‘lily’, ‘lily of the valley’.
- Southern French : from Occitan susan ‘above’, ‘higher’, hence a topographic name for someone living at the top end of a village or on the side of a valley.
- Jewish (Sephardic) : from the male personal name Susan, a derivative of Arabic susan ‘lily’.
