Susannah (given name)

Susannah

Gender	Female
Origin
Meaning	Lily
Other names
Related names	Susanna, Susan, Suzanne, Susana

Susannah is a feminine given name. It is an English version of the Hebrew name Shoshana, meaning lily. ^[1] Other variants of the name include Susanna, Susana, Susan, Suzanne, and Susie.

Notable people bearing this name include:

• Susannah Breslin, American writer
• Susannah Carr (born 1952), Australian news anchor
• Susannah Carter (fl. 1765), English cookbook author
• Susannah Maria Cibber (1714–1766), English singer and actress
• Susannah Constantine (born 1962), English fashion advisor
• Susannah Corbett (born 1968), English actress and author
• Susannah Darwin (1765–1817), mother of Charles Darwin
• Susannah Doyle (born 1966), English actress, playwright, and film director
• Susannah Fielding (born 1985), English actress
• Susannah Fiennes (born 1961), British artist
• Susannah Fowle (born 1958), Australian actress
• Susannah Sarah Washington Graham (1816–1890), American political hostess
• Susannah Grant (born 1963), American screenwriter and director
• Susannah Gunning (1740–1800), British novelist
• Susannah Hagan (born 1951), English professor
• Susannah Harker (born 1965), English actress
• Susannah Holford (1864–1944), English noblewoman
• Susannah Johnson (born 1990), American gymnast
• Susannah Willard Johnson (c. 1729–1810), American captured in Abenaki raid
• Susannah 'Suzy' Lamplugh (born 1961), British disappearance in 1986
• Susannah Lattin (1848–1868), American woman who died at illegal adoption clinic
• Susannah Martin (1621–1692), woman executed during Salem witch trials
• Susannah McCorkle (1946–2001), American jazz singer
• Susannah Meadows, American writer for Newsweek magazine
• Susannah Melvoin (born 1964), American vocalist, songwriter, and actress
• Susannah Scaroni (born 1991), American wheelchair Paralympian and athlete
• Susannah Sheldon, accuser during Salem witch trials
• Susannah Stacey, pseudonym used by writers Jill Staynes and Margaret Storey
• Susannah Waters, British soprano
• Susannah Wise, English actress
• Susannah York (1939–2011), British actress

Fictional characters bearing the name Susannah include

• Susanna (Book of Daniel)
• Susannah, title character of the opera of the same name
• Susannah, the eponymous character of the Libby Gleeson novel I Am Susannah
• Susannah Dean, character from Stephen King's The Dark Tower series
• Susannah Manatt, character from Honkai Impact 3rd
• Susannah Morrisey, character in the defunct soap opera Brookside
• Susannah, title character of Muriel Denison's novel Susannah of the Mounties
• Susannah, title character in "Susannah's Still Alive", a single by The Kinks
• Susannah Simon, protagonist of The Mediator Series
• Princess Susannah, fictional character in Black Mirror

See also

• Susanna (given name)
• Susana (given name)
• Susan
• Susie (disambiguation)
• Suzanne (given name)
• Susanne (given name)
• Sue (name)
• Zuzana

References

1. "Susannah." Behind the Name. Accessed on July 11, 2011.