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A given name is the part of a personal name that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group who have a common surname. The term given name refers to a name usually bestowed at or close to the time of birth, usually by the parents of the newborn. A Christian name is the first name which is given at baptism, in Christian custom.
Susy is a feminine given name, sometimes a short form (hypocorism) of Susan, Susanne, Susannah, etc.
Susan Miller may refer to:
Susie is a female name that can be a diminutive form of Susan, Susanne, Suzanne, Susannah, Susanna or Susana.
Susanne is a feminine given name. It is a German and Scandinavian form of Susanna, with Susann and Suzanne as variants.
Susannah is a feminine given name. It is an English version of the Hebrew name Shoshana, meaning lily. Other variants of the name include Susanna, Susana, Susan, Suzanne, and Susie.
Suzie or Susie is a feminine given name, and is a short form (hypocorism) of Suzanne, Susannah or Susan.
Iris is a feminine name.
Suzi is an English nickname for people with names such as Susan, Suzanne, Susanna or Susannah.
Sue is a given name and a common short form of the following female given names:
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Shoshana is a Hebrew feminine first name. It is the name of at least two women in the Bible and, via Σουσάννα, it developed into such European and Christian names as Susanna, Susan, Susanne, Susana, Susannah, Suzanne, Susie, Suzie, Sanna and Zuzana. In Ethiopia it became Sosie, Sosina, Sosena, while in North Africa it yielded Sawsen and Sawsan.
Susana is a feminine given name. Like its variants, which include the names Susanna and Susan, it is derived from Σουσάννα, Sousanna, the Greek form of the Hebrew שושנה, Shoshannah, which could have been derived from the Aramaic language. ܫܘܫܢ, Shoshan means lily in Syriac. سوسن, Susan, is the Persian spelling of this name. The spelling Susanna is used in Sweden, Italy, the Netherlands and Finland, as well as much of the English-speaking world. Zuzana is used in Czech Republic and Slovakia, and the spelling is Zsuzsanna in Hungary. In Polish it is Zuzanna. In addition to its use in English, the spelling Susana is also common in countries such as Spain and Portugal.
Zuzana is a common female given name in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. It is often translated to other languages as Zuzanna (Polish), Zsuzsanna (Hungarian), Suzanne, Susan, or Susannah – all commonly derived from the Hebrew language name Shoshana, meaning "lily".
Suzanne is a common female given name that was particularly popular in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s. It remained in the top 200 most popular names in the United States between 1930 and the late 1980s. Form of the Hebrew name שׁוֹשַׁנָּה (Shoshannah). This was derived from the Hebrew word שׁוֹשָׁן (shoshan) meaning "lily". However, it has also been regularly used in English speaking countries since before the start of the 20th century. It may also be spelled Susanne, and common diminutives are Sue and Suzy.
Susanna or Suzanna is a feminine first name, of Egyptian and Persian origin. It is the name of women in the Biblical books of Daniel and Luke. It is often spelled Susannah, although Susanna is the original spelling. It is derived from the Egyptian shoshen, meaning "Iris flower".
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- ↑ 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.
