Susan
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Gender | Female |
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Origin | |
Word/name | Egyptian, Persian, Greek, and Hebrew |
Meaning | Lily, Pure, Lotus flower |
Other names | |
Related names | Sue, Suellen, Susie, Susannah, Suzanne |
Popularity | see popular names |
Susan is a feminine given name, the usual English version of Susanna or Susannah. All are versions of the Hebrew name Shoshana, which is derived from the Hebrew shoshan, meaning lotus flower in Egyptian, original derivation, and several other languages.[1][2]
Variations
- Susana (given name), Susanna (or Suzanna), Susannah, Suzana, Suzannah
- Susann, Suzan, Suzann
- Susanne (given name), Suzanne
- Susanne (given name)
- Suzan (given name)
- Suzanne
- Suzette (given name)
- Suzy (given name)
Nicknames
Common nicknames for Susan include:
- Sue, Susie, Susi (German), Suzi, Suzy, Suzie, Suze, Sanna, Suzie, Sookie, Sukie, Sukey, Subo, Suus (Dutch), Shanti
In other languages
- Persian: سوسن (Sousan, Susan)
- Kurdish: Sosna,Swesne
- Suzana in Albanian
- Arabic: سوسن (Sawsan)
- Armenian: Շուշան (Šušan)
- Chinese: 苏珊 (Sushan)
- Sujan in Korean (수잔)
- 蘇珊 in Cantonese (Soshan)
- Suzanne in French
- Susan in Dutch
- Susanne in German (also Susanna), Danish and Norwegian
- Hebrew: שושנה Shoshana (often shortened to Hebrew: שוש Shosh, Hebrew: שושי Shoshi)
- Shoshannam in Malayalam
- Zsuzsanna in Hungarian
- Susanna in Italian
- Japanese: スーザン (Sūzan)
- Susanna, Sanna and Susanne in Swedish
- Zuzanna or Zane in Latvian
- Zuzana in Czech and Slovak
- Zuzanna in Polish
- Susana in Portuguese, Spanish, along with a newly invented form Açucena/Azucena (given name) (the modern Portuguese and Spanish, respectively, word for "lily")
- সুসান (Sausan) or সূজ়ন (Suzon) in Bengali
- Susanna in Catalan
- Suzana in Romanian
- Susanna in Estonian
- Сузана (Suzana) in Serbian
- Susen in Switzerland
- Сюзанна (Syuzanna) 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 (Susanna) in Ukrainian
- Urdu: کنول (Kanul = Lotus)
- Süsən in Azerbaijani
- ሶስና in Amharic
- Huhana in Maori
See also
References
- ^ Gardiner, Alan H. (1936). "The Egyptian Origin of Some English Personal Names". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 56 (2): 189–197. doi:10.2307/594666. ISSN 0003-0279. JSTOR 594666.
- ^ Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). Oxford Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press. p. 253-254. ISBN 0-19-861060-2.
External links
Look up Susan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
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