Given name
Shoshanna
“resembling a graceful white lily”
Shoshanna is a variant of Shoshana. In Arabic use, Shoshana carries the interpretation “resembling a graceful white lily.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Shoshanna is a variant of Shoshana. In Arabic use, Shoshana carries the interpretation “resembling a graceful white lily.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Shoshanna is a variant of Susannah. An origin associated with Susannah is Hebrew.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1960. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Shoshanna through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 823
- 0 boys · 823 girls
- Most popular year
- 1980
- 26 babies
- 2025
- 9
- #10,795 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −36%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 9 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 10,795 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 748 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Shoshanna’s family of names
Shoshanna has a related form in Susannah. Shoshanna has a related form in Shoshana.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Shoshanna
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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