Susan


Gender:
Origin: Hebrew
1641 famous people named Susan found on Wikipedia.
1121657 female, 2544 male in US.
Most recent ranking: 1079-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 2nd in year 1960
Used in: English

Meanings

A female given name, form of Susanna or Susannah.

Susan is a feminine given name, from French Susanne, from Late Latin Susanna, from Greek Sousanna, from Hebrew Šošanna, literally meaning "lily".

Fem. proper name, from French Susanne, from Late Latin Susanna (see Susanna). A top-10 name for girls born in the U.S. 1945-1968 (peaking at #2 from 1957-60).

English variant of Susanna: lily, lotus.

Famous People: 1641 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Susan Sarandon 1946 American actress
2 Susan Boyle 1961 British singer
3 Susan B. Anthony 1820 American women's rights activist
4 Susan Rice 1964 United States Ambassador to the United Nations
5 Susan Downey 1973 Film producer from the United States
6 Susan Wojcicki 1968 American businesswoman
7 Susan Lucci 1946 American actress
8 Susan Atkins 1948 Convicted murderer
9 Susan Dey 1952 American actress
10 Susan Hayward 1917 American actress
11 Susan Collins 1952 United States Senator from Maine
12 Susan Olsen 1961 American actress
13 Susan Smith 1971 American convicted murderer
14 Susan Sontag 1933 American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist
15 Susan Buffett 1932 American activist
16 Susan Saint James 1946 American actress and activist
17 Susan Tully 1968 English television producer, director and former actress
18 Susan Kelechi Watson 2000 American actor
19 Susan Tedeschi 1970 American blues and soul musician
20 Susan Oliver 1932 Actress, author, aviator
21 Susan Moonsie 1964 American singer
22 Susan Egan 1970 American actress
23 Susan Sullivan 1942 Actress
24 Susan Clark 1940 Actor from Canada
25 Susan Wright 1976 American murderer
26 Susan Alice Buffett 1953 American philanthropist
27 Susan Berman 1945 American writer
28 Susan Bennett 1949 American actress
29 Susan La Flesche Picotte 1865 Omaha Native American, physician, and reformer
30 Susan Flannery 1939 Actress
31 Susan Misner 1971 Dancer and actress
32 Susan Jameson 1941 Actress
33 Susan Strasberg 1938 American film and stage actress
34 Susan Pevensie Fictional English girl, a lead character in the first two Narnia books
35 Susan Schneider
36 Susan Stafford 1945 American model
37 Susan Bay 1943 American actress
38 Susan Blakely 1948 American actress
39 Susan Blommaert 1947 American actress
40 Susan Hampshire 1937 English actress
41 Susan Link 1976 German television presenter and radio host
42 Susan Calman 1974 British comedian
43 Susan Kohner 1936 American actress
44 Susan Walters 1963 American actress
45 Susan Anton 1950 Actress from the United States
46 Susan May Pratt 1974 American actress
47 Susan Ward 1976 American actress and model
48 Susan Lynch 1971 Actor from Northern Ireland, born 1971.
49 Susan Ford 1957 American photographer
50 Susan Hoecke 1981 German actress
51 Susan Silverman Rabbi
52 Susan Harris 1940 American television comedy writer and producer
53 Susan Mayer 1969 Fictional character on Desperate Housewives
54 Susan Anspach 1942 Stage and film actress from the United States
55 Susan Seaforth Hayes 1943 American actress
56 Susan Penhaligon 1949 British actress
57 Susan Park 1985 Actress
58 Susan Cooper 1935 English fantasy writer
59 Susan Tyrrell 1945 American actress
60 Susan Ann Sulley 1963 British pop singer
61 Susan Powter 1957 Australian author, motivational speaker
62 Susan McDougal 1955 Recipient of a Presidential pardon
63 Susan Cain 1968 Self-help writer
64 Susan Estrich 1952 American lawyer, academic and political analyst
65 Susan McFadden 1983 Irish actress
66 Susan Richardson 1952 American actress
67 Susan Yeagley 1972 American actress
68 Susan Lewis Fictional human
69 Susan Buckner 1953 American actress
70 Susan Hill 1942 English author
71 Susan Polgar 1969 Hungarian-American chess grandmaster
72 Susan Ursitti American actress
73 Susan Cabot 1927 American actress
74 Susan Howard 1944 American actress
75 Susan Eisenhower 1951 American writer
76 Susan Backlinie 1946 Former actress and stuntwoman
77 Susan Roces 1941 Filipino actress
78 Susan Holmes 1972 American model and television personality
79 Susan Lindauer 1963 American antiwar activist
80 Susan Morrow 1931 Actress
81 Susan Diol 1962 American actress
82 Susan Sheridan 1947 British actress
83 Adam Susan
84 Susan Kennedy Fictional character in the Australian soap opera Neighbours
85 Susan Faludi 1959 American feminist
86 Susan Eisenberg 1964 American voice actress
87 Susan Brooks 1960 Indiana politician and judge
88 Susan Heyward 1982 American actress
89 Susan Cowsill 1959 American musician
90 Susan Landau Finch 2000 American film producer
91 Susan Crowe Canadian singer
92 Susan J. Helms 1958 Lieutenant General in the United States Air Force and a former NASA astronaut
93 Susan Gibney 1961 American actress
94 Susan Haskell 1968 Canadian actress
95 Susan Cummings 1930 German-American actress of the 1950s and 1960s
96 Susan Orlean 1955 American journalist
97 Susan Wagner 1961 American businesswoman
98 Susan Harrison 1938 American actress
99 Susan Fleetwood 1944 British actress
100 Susan Sto Helit
101 Susan Blanchard American actress
102 Susan Blackmore 1951 British writer and academic
103 Susan Kare 1954 American artist and graphic designer
104 Susan Barlow
105 Susan Feniger American chef
106 Susan Blu 1948 Voice actress and director
107 Susan Calvin 1982 Fictional human
108 Susan Hanson 1943 English actress
109 Susan Lindquist 1949 American geneticist
110 Susan Glaspell 1876 American writer
111 Susan Sameh
112 Susan Wooldridge 1952 English actress
113 Susan Kiefel 1954 Australian judge; Chief Justice of Australia
114 Susan Bluestein 1946 American casting director
115 Susan McGalla 1964 American businesswoman
116 Susan Bernard 1948 American actress/model, writer and businesswoman
117 Susan Butcher 1954 American dog musher, noteworthy as the second woman to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in 1986, the second four-time winner in 1990, and the first to win four out of five sequential years
118 Susan Lanier 1947 American television and film actress
119 Susan Desmond-Hellmann American academic administrator
120 Susan Hawk 1961 Television personality
121 Susan Fleming 1908 Actress
122 Susan Gordon 1949 Actress
123 Susan Roosevelt Weld First lady of Massachusetts
124 Susan Brownmiller 1935 American journalist and activist
125 Susan Page 1951 American journalist
126 Susan Renouf 1942 Australian socialite
127 Susan Barrantes 1937 Mother of Sarah Ferguson
128 Susan Smit 1974 Dutch writer and columnist
129 Susan Denberg 1944 German actress and model
130 Susan Greenfield 1950 British scientist
131 Susan Raye 1944 American singer
132 Susan Silo 1942 Actress
133 Susan Davis 1944 American politician
134 Susan Maughan 1938 British singer
135 Susan Shaw 1929 English actress
136 Susan Howatch 1940 British writer
137 Susan Stroman 1954 American theatre director
138 Susan Ivanova
139 Susan Hogan 1950 Canadian actress
140 Susan Hart 1941 American actress
141 Susan Cookson 1965 British actress
142 Susan Hendricks 1972 Anchor with CNN and CNN Headline News
143 Susan Gerbic 1962 American skepticism activist
144 Susan Ruttan 1948 Actress
145 Susan Jacks 1948 Canadian singer
146 Susan Alberti 1947 Australian businesswoman
147 Susan Solomon 1956 NOAA Atmospheric Chemist
148 Susan Roman 1957 Canadian actress
149 Susan Li Canadian journalist
150 Susan Block 1955 American sexologist
151 Susan Polk 1957 American murderer
152 Susan Molinari 1958 American politician
153 Susan Aglukark 1967 Canadian Inuit musician
154 Susan Kellerman 1944 American Broadway and theatre-house actress
155 Susan Stranks 1938 British actress
156 Susan Bordo 1947 American philosopher
157 Susan Elizabeth Phillips 1948 American writer
158 Susan Abulhawa 1967 Palestinian American writer
159 Susan Decker 1962 American businesswoman
160 Susan Graham 1960 Singer
161 Susan Brady 1966 New Zealand actress
162 Susan Wong 1979 Hong Kong singer
163 Susan Fiske 1952 American psychologist
164 Susan Hockfield 1951 American neuroscientist
165 Susan Skipper 1951 British actress
166 Susan Seidelman 1952 Film director
167 Susan French 1912 American actress
168 Susan Stephen 1931 British actress
169 Susan Haack 1945 English professor of philosophy and law
170 Susan Wayland 1980 Pornographic actress
171 Susan Strange 1923 British academic
172 Susan Jacoby 1945 American journalist
173 Susan Akin 1965 Beauty pageant titleholder
174 Susan Spencer American television journalist
175 Susan Bottomly 1950 Actress, model
176 Susan Peretz 1940 Actress, acting coach
177 Susan Wise Bauer 1968 American academic
178 Susan N. Herman 1947 American legal scholar
179 Susan Luckey 1938 American stage actor
180 Susan Stryker 1961 LGBT professor, historian, author, and filmmaker
181 Susan Damante 1950 American actress
182 Susan L. Taylor 1946 American writer
183 Susan Ahn Cuddy 1915 Gunnery officer
184 Susan Swift 1964 American actress
185 Susan Ashton 1967 American singer
186 Susan Kent 1975 Actress
187 Susan Webber Wright 1948 United States District Judge
188 Susan Cheever 1943 American writer
189 Susan Mallery American author
190 Susan Rosenberg 1955 American activist
191 Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson 1830 American poet
192 Susan Blackwell American actor, writer and singer
193 Susan Moody 1940 British writer
194 Susan Wiggs 1958 American writer
195 Susan Stamberg 1938 American radio journalist
196 Susan Minot 1956 American author and screenwriter
197 Susan Coyne Canadian actor and writer
198 Susan Fassbender 1959 English pop music singer and songwriter
199 Susan Griffin 1943 American feminist writer, poet
200 Susan Rothenberg 1945 American artist