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Susan

OriginEnglish diminutive of Susannah, Hebrew
Meaning"lily"
GenderGirl
US Rank#963

Top 1000

NB Rank#321

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Variation of Sosie

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Famous Susans

  • Susan Brownell Anthony

    American suffragist

  • Susan Hayward (born Edythe Marrenner)

    American actress

  • Susan Nicole Downey

    American film producer, wife of actor Robert Downey

  • Susan Hampshire

    Lady Kulukundis, English actress

  • Susan Jaffe

    American ballerina

  • Susanna "Susan" Kohner

    American actress

  • Susan Victoria Lucci

    American actress

  • Susan Sessions Zuccotti

    American Holocaust historian

  • Susan Margaret Collins

    U.S. Senator from Maine

  • Susan Vreeland

    American novelist

  • Susan Bennett

    American voice artist of Apple's Siri

  • Susan Branch

    American cookbook author

  • Susan Abigail Sarandon

    American actress

  • Susan Solomon

    American atmospheric chemist

  • Susan Cabot (born Harriet Shapiro)

    American actress

  • Susan Scott Rae

    Scottish TV anchor

  • Susan Melody George

    English actress

  • Susan Horowitz Cain

    American author and psychologist

  • (Marian) Susan Maughan

    English singer

  • Susan Rothenberg

    American painter

  • Susan Jacoby

    American author

  • Susan Jeffers

    American psychologist and author

  • Susan Ashton (born Susan Rae Hill)

    American Christian singer

  • Susan Sontag

    American author

  • Susan Flannery

    American actress

  • Susan C. Faludi

    American journalist and author

  • Susan Michaela Sullivan

    American actress

  • Susan Oliver (born Charlotte Gercke)

    American actress

  • Susan Hallock Dey

    American actress

  • Susan Orlean

    American journalist and author

  • Zsuzsanna "Susan" Polgar

    Hungarian,American chess champion and author

  • Susan Powter

    Australian nutritionist, author and TV host

  • Susan Tedeschi

    American blues musician

  • Susan Jillian Tyrrell

    American actress

  • Susan L. Taylor

    American magazine journalist and editor

  • Susan Graham

    American operatic mezzo,soprano

  • Susan Melinda Yeagley

    American actress

  • Susan Ursitti

    American actress

  • Susan Isaacs

    American novelist

  • Susan E. Isaacs

    American actress

  • Susan Wiggs

    American novelist

  • Susan Cheever

    American novelist, daughter of novelist John Cheever

  • Susan Elizabeth Phillips

    American novelist

  • Susan Farrell Egan

    American actress and singer

  • Susan Elizabeth Rice

    U.S. National Security Adviser

  • Susan Lisa Rosenberg

    American radical

  • Susan Ann Sulley

    English singer of The Human League

  • Susan Saint James (born Susan Jane Miller)

    American actress

  • Susan Coolidge

    pen name of American children's author Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  • Susan Littler

    English actress

  • Susan Jane Helms

    American astronaut

  • Susan Marie Olsen

    American actress

  • Susan Magdalane Boyle

    Scottish singer

  • Susan McFadden

    Irish singer/actress

  • Susan Cookson

    English actress

  • Susan Diane Wojcicki

    American businesswoman and CEO of YouTube

  • Susan Elizabeth Ford Bales

    daughter of U.S. President Gerald Ford

  • Susan "Susie" Essman

    American comedienne and actress

  • Susan Grace Calman

    Scottish comedian

  • Janet Susan Mary "Viva" Hoffman

    American actress

  • Susan Eloise "S.E." Hinton

    American novelist

  • Susan Fromberg Schaeffer

    American novelist

  • Susan Kay "Suzi" Quatro

    English singer,songwriter and bassist

  • Susan Martha "Susie" McEntire

    American Christian singer

  • Susan Kay "Suzy" Bogguss

    American country music singer

  • Susan Elizabeth "Suzy" Amis

    American actress, wife of director James Cameron

  • Linda Susan Agar

    elder daughter of child star Shirley Temple

  • Susan Estrich

    an American lawyer, professor, author, political operative, feminist advocate, and political commentator for Fox News

  • Susan Harris

    American television comedy writer and producer, creator of "The Golden Girls"

  • Susan Peters

    American actress

  • Susan Alexandra "Sigourney" Weaver

    American actress

  • Susan Mikula

    American photographer/artist

  • Susan Debra Schofield

    Cabana, mother of January Schofield

Susan in pop culture

  • Susan Pevensie

    character in the Chronicles of Narnia series

  • Susan Keane

    main character on TV's "Suddenly Susan"

  • Susan Frankenstein

    character in movie "Frankenweenie"

  • Susan Bones

    character in the Harry Potter series

  • Susan Bunch

    character on TV's "Friends"

  • Susan Calvin

    character in the I, Robot Series

  • Susan Cresswell

    character on TV's "I'm Alan Partridge"

  • Susan Delgado

    character in Stephen King's The Dark Tower series

  • Susan Fischer

    character on TV's "Orange is the New Black"

  • Susan Ivanova

    character on TV show "Babylon 5"

  • Susan Foreman

    character on TV's "Doctor Who"

  • Susan Kennedy

    character on Australian soap "Neighbours"

  • Susan Cole

    character on Australian soap "Neighbours"

  • Susan Mayer

    character on TV's "Desperate Housewives"

  • Susan Moore

    character on American soap opera "General Hospital"

  • Susan Murphy aka Ginormica

    character in animated movie "Monsters vs. Aliens"

  • Susan Ross

    character on TV's "Seinfeld"

  • Susan "Sue" Storm aka The Invisible Woman

    character in Fantastic Four comics

  • Susan Ashwood

    character in the Power of Five series by Anthony Horowitz

  • Susan Mortlake

    character in the Power of Five series

  • Susan Wainwright

    character in "The Sims 3" computer game

  • Susan "LaF" LaFontaine

    character on TV's "Camilla"

  • Susan Elinor "Suellen" O'Hara Benteen

    character in "Gone with the Wind"

  • Susan Vance

    character in "Bringing Up Baby"

  • Susan Mullucks

    thalidomide baby on TV's "Call the midwife"

  • "To Susan on the West Coast

    Waiting," song by Donovan

  • Susan G. Komen

    breast cancer organization

  • Lazy Susan

    rotating table tray

  • Black

    eyed Susan, flower

  • Susan Lewis

    character on TV's "ER"

  • Susan Elizabeth Walker

    character in 1994 remake of "Miracle on 34th Street"

  • Susan Heffley

    a character from Diary of a Wimpy Kid

  • "Poor Susan"

    A ballad in William Wordsworth's collection of poems, "Lyrical Ballads"

Variations & nicknames

  • SusanneGerman
  • ZuzanaCzech
  • SyuzannaRussian
  • SusanitaSpanish
  • SusanaPortuguese
  • ZsuzsaHungarian
  • SuzanneFrench
  • ZsuzsiHungarian
  • SuzetteFrench
  • SuseGerman
  • ZsazsaHungarian
  • SuzanaSlavic
  • ZuzannaLatvian
  • ZsuzsannaHungarian
  • SusannSwedish
  • SusanaSpanish

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