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Susan

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Gender
  
Female

Meaning
  
Lily

Word/name
  
Persian, Hebrew, Greek

Popularity
  
see popular names

Related names
  
Sue, Susie, Susannah, Suzanne

Susan is a feminine given name, from French Susanne, from Late Latin Susanna, from Greek Sousanna, from Hebrew Šošanna, literally meaning "lily", a term derived from Susa (Persian: Šuš), a city in southwest Iran that was the ancient capital of the Elamite kingdom and Achaemenid empire.

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Variations

  • Susana, Susanna, Susannah
  • Suzana, Suzanna, Suzannah
  • Susann, Suzan, Suzann
  • Susanne, Suzanne
  • Susanne
  • Suzan
  • Suzette

    • Nicknames

    Common nicknames for Susan include:

  • Sue, Susie, Suzi, Suzy, Suzie, Sanna

    • In other languages

  • Persian: سوسن‎‎ (Sousan, Susan) / Tajik: Савсан (Savsan), Tajik: Сӯсан (Süsan)
  • Arabic: سوسن‎‎ (Sawsan)
  • Armenian: Շուշան (Šušan)
  • Chinese: 苏珊 (Sushan)
  • Sujan in Korean (수잔)

    • • 蘇珊 in Cantonese ( Soshan)

  • Suzanne in French and Dutch
  • Susanne in German, Danish and Norwegian
  • Hebrew: שושנה‎‎ Shoshana (often shortened to Hebrew: שוש‎‎ Shosh, Hebrew: שושי‎‎ Shoshi)
  • Sosamma in Malayalam
  • Zsuzsanna in Hungarian
  • Susanna in Italian
  • Japanese: スーザン (Sūzan)
  • Susanna, Sanna and Susanne in Swedish
  • Xuxa in Latin origin
  • Zuzanna or Zane in Latvian
  • Zuzana in Czech and Slovak
  • Zuzanna, Zuzia in Polish
  • Susana in Portuguese, Spanish
  • Susanna in Catalan
  • Suzana in Romanian
  • Susanna in Estonian
  • Сузана in Serbian
  • Susen in Switzerland
  • Сюзанна in Russian
  • Σουζάνα (Souzana) or Σωσσάνα (Sosana) or Σουσάννα (Sousanna) in Greek
  • ܫܘܫܢ or ܫܘܫܢܬ (Shushan or Shushaneh) in Assyrian/Chaldean/Aramaic/Syriac
  • Suzan in Turkish
  • Сусанна in Ukrainian
  • Urdu: کنول‎

    • References

    Susan Wikipedia
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