Susanna

soo-SAN-uh

A classic biblical name meaning “lily,” long associated with purity and grace.

Meaning

Susanna comes from the Hebrew name Shoshannah, which the excerpts gloss as “lily.” It entered Christian use through the Greek and Latin biblical tradition, and the 19th-century name books treat Susanna, Susannah, Susan, and related forms as the same flower-name family. In that tradition, the name carries a poetic, feminine image of beauty and freshness.

Origin

Fun fact

The excerpts group Susanna with other flower names like Rose and Lilias as a name especially loved in poetic Christian naming traditions.

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Confidence: sourced. Sources: History of Christian Names, Praenomina; or, the etymology of the principal Christian names of Great Britain and Ireland, Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature.

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