Given name
Shoshannah
“resembling a graceful white lily”
Shoshannah is a variant of Shoshana. In Arabic use, Shoshana carries the interpretation “resembling a graceful white lily.”
Original Hebrewשושנה
Meaning & origin
What it means
Shoshannah 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
Shoshannah is a biblical name from Hebrew.
From biblical name research
How it developed
From the Hebrew noun shushan (שושן), “lily.”
From biblical name research
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1967. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Shoshannah through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 223
- 0 boys · 223 girls
- Most popular year
- 1980
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2017. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 14 in 1980. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 283 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.
Shoshannah’s family of names
Shoshannah has a related form in Shoshana.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
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.
See also 10
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
- Susanshares a root
- Susannashares a root
- Susashares a root
- Shavshashares a root
- Shishashares a root
- Sheshanshares a root
- Sheshaishares a root
- Shashaishares a root
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People named Shoshannah
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