Susana (given name)
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Susana is a feminine
given name
. Like its variant
s, 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
.
Notable people bearing the name Susana include:
See also:
Feminine
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given name
Given name
A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...
. Like its variant
Variant
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s, which include the names Susanna
Susanna
Susanna is a feminine first name. It is not very common in the USA, and is found there predominantly among the American Jewish community. It is the name of at least two women in the Bible. It is often spelled Susannah, although Susanna is the original spelling...
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
Aramaic language
Aramaic is a group of languages belonging to the Afroasiatic language phylum. The name of the language is based on the name of Aram, an ancient region in central Syria. Within this family, Aramaic belongs to the Semitic family, and more specifically, is a part of the Northwest Semitic subfamily,...
. ܫܘܫܢ, Shoshan means lily in Syriac
Syriac language
Syriac is a dialect of Middle Aramaic that was once spoken across much of the Fertile Crescent. Having first appeared as a script in the 1st century AD after being spoken as an unwritten language for five centuries, Classical Syriac became a major literary language throughout the Middle East from...
. سوسن, Susan, is the Persian
Persian language
Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...
spelling of this name. The spelling Susanna is used in Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
, the Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
and Finland
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
, as well as much of the English-speaking world. Zuzana is used in Czech Republic
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....
and Slovakia
Slovakia
The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...
, and the spelling is Zsuzsanna in Hungary
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
. In Polish
Polish language
Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...
it is Zuzanna. In addition to its use in English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, the spelling Susana is also common in countries such as Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
and Portugal
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
.
Notable people bearing the name Susana include:
- Susana, Lady WaltonSusana, Lady WaltonSusana, Lady Walton, MBE was the wife of the composer Sir William Walton . She was a writer, and the creator of the gardens of La Mortella....
(1926–2010), wife of composer Sir William Walton - Susana BacaSusana BacaSusana Esther Baca de la Colina is a prominent Peruvian singer-songwriter; two-times Latin Grammy Award winner. She has been a key figure in the revival of Afro-Peruvian music within Peru....
(born 1944), Peruvian singer - Susana Blaustein MuñozSusana Blaustein MuñozSusana Blaustein Muñoz is an Argentine film director. She directed four films since she started her career in 1980, and produced one of them, the documentary Las Madres de Plaza de Mayo , about the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo who looked for their disappeared children during the Dirty War...
, Argentine film director - Susana CalandrelliSusana CalandrelliSusana Calandrelli was an Argentine writer and teacher.-Biography:Born in Buenos Aires, Calandrelli wrote everything from poetry, stories, novels to essays, plays, lectures and study books. She entered several different cultural institutions and directed the Escuela de Servicio Social del Insituto...
(1901-1978), Argentine writer and teacher - Susana CamareroSusana CamareroSusana Camarero Benítez, is a Spanish politician who belongs to the main opposition People's Party where she serves on the national executive....
(born 1970), Spanish politician - Susana CamposSusana CamposSusana Campos was an Argentine actress. She starred in the 1950 film Arroz con leche under director Carlos Schlieper.-External links:. ....
(1934-2004), Argentine actress - Susana Chávez-SilvermanSusana Chavez-SilvermanSusana Chávez-Silverman, born in Los Angeles, California, is a U.S. Latina writer and professor of Romance Languages and Literature at Pomona College in Claremont, California.-Education:...
, American writer and professor - Susana ChouSusana ChouSusana Chou Kei Jan , born December 1941 in Shanghai, a native of Ningbo, Zhejiang) was the President of the Legislative Assembly of the Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China.-Biography:...
(born 1941), Chinese politician - Susana ChávezSusana ChávezSusana Chávez was a Mexican poet and human rights activist who was born and lived most of her life in her hometown of Ciudad Juárez....
(1974–2011), Mexican poet and activist - Susana DosamantesSusana DosamantesSusana Dosamantes , is a Mexican actress. She is the mother of Mexican pop diva Paulina Rubio, and has worked in around 50 movies and TV series, including a number of telenovelas...
(born 1948), Mexican actress - Susana Duijm (born 1936), Venezuelan entertainer
- Susana EscobarSusana EscobarSusana Escobar is a Mexican swimmer and Olympian. As of October 2008, she attends and swims for the USA's University of Texas at Austin....
(born 1987), Mexican swimmer and Olympian - Susana FeitorSusana FeitorSusana Paula de Jesus Feitor, DamIH is a Portuguese racewalker. She was born in Alcobertas, Médio Tejo.-Achievements:-References:...
(born 1975), Portuguese racewalker - Susana Ferrari BillinghurstSusana Ferrari BillinghurstSusana Ferrari Billinghurst was an Argentine aviator. She was the first woman in South America to earn a commercial pilot's license, in 1937.-Career:...
(1914–1999), Argentine aviator - Susana Freyre, Argentine actress
- Susana FélixSusana FélixSusana Félix is a Portuguese singer, songwriter, musician, actress, producer.In 2006, she was the artistic coordinator of the show Sexta Feira 13 - O Musical Xutos & Pontapés, after the Portuguese band Xutos & Pontapés. Susana was also the Portuguese voice of Pocahontas, the Disney character...
(born 1975), Portuguese entertainer - Susana GiménezSusana GiménezSusana Giménez, née María Susana Giménez Aubert is an Argentine actress, ex-vedette and television host....
(born 1944), Argentine actress and host - Susana GonzálezSusana GonzálezSusana Alejandra González is a Mexican actress. This particular Mexican actress is known for her talent, beauty and docile character.- Biography :...
(born 1973), Mexican actress - Susana HarpSusana Harp-Biography:Born in Oaxaca de Juarez, her mother is from Oaxaca and her father Lebanese, from a very small community in Mexico. In her childhood she was a quiet girl, but always showed interest in music as she was influenced by her grandfather Jorge Fernando Iturribarria...
(born 1968), Mexican singer - Susana HiguchiSusana HiguchiSusana Shizuko Higuchi Miyagawa is a Peruvian politician and engineer, better known as the former wife of ex-president of Peru Alberto Fujimori...
(born 1950), Peruvian politician and engineer - Susana López CharretonSusana López CharretonSusana López Charreton is a prominent Mexican virologist specialized in rotaviruses. She was a co-recipient of the Carlos J. Finlay Prize for Microbiology along her husband, Carlos Arias Ortiz....
, Mexican virologist - Susana MalcorraSusana MalcorraSusana Malcorra is the current United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Field Support. She was appointed by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in March 2008.- Biography :...
(born 1954), United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Field Support - Susana MartinezSusana MartinezSusana Martinez is the 31st and current governor of New Mexico.A Republican, Martinez is the first female governor of New Mexico, as well as the first female Hispanic governor in the United States. She was formerly the district attorney for the 3rd Judicial District of the U.S. state of New Mexico...
(born 1959), 31st governor of New Mexico - Susana MedinaSusana MedinaSusana Medina is an English-Spanish writer. Born in Hampshire, England of a Spanish father and a German mother of Czech origin, she grew up in Valencia, Spain, and has resided in London since 1989. Susana Medina has written and published poetry, a novel, stories, essays and a cinematographic script...
(born 1966), English-Spanish writer - Susana MendozaSusana MendozaSusana Mendoza is the City Clerk of Chicago. She is also a former member of the Illinois House of Representatives since 2001, representing the 1st District of Illinois - which includes the Chicago communities of Brighton Park, Little Village, Gage Park, and Back of the Yards...
(born 1972), City Clerk of Chicago - Susana MillerSusana MillerSusana Miller is one of the most prominent teachers, choreographers, and dancers of the old milonguero style of tango. She introduced term Milonguero Style in the mid 1990s when she was an assistant to Pedro 'Tete' Rusconi. Born in Buenos Aires, Miller continues to teach there as well as...
, Argentinian tango dancer - Susana Molinari LeguizamónSusana Molinari LeguizamónSusana Molinari Leguizamón was an Argentine Spanish and French language writer active during the 1940's.-Works:* El Jardín del Silencio , 1939 as Alma del Fiore...
, Argentine writer - Susana PaganoSusana PaganoSusana Pagano is a narrator, and an author of various novels and short stories.Susana Pagano studied at the Sociedad General de Escritores de Mexico , the Mexican writers’ guild and one of the oldest schools of creative writing in Mexico...
(born 1968), Mexican author - Susana PeperSusana PeperSusana Norma Peper Campbell is an Argentinian swimmer. She competed in two events at the 1964 Summer Olympics.Peper is the daughter of Olympic swimmers Roberto Peper and Jeannette Campbell.-References:...
(born 1946), Argentine swimmer - Susana RinaldiSusana RinaldiSusana Natividad Rinaldi is an Argentine tango singer.Dubbed "La Tana", she was born Susana Natividad Rinaldi in Buenos Aires on December 25, 1935. The daughter of a wealthy father and a poor mother, she spent her childhood moving throughout different provinces of Argentina...
(born 1935), Argentine tango singer - Susana RivadeneiraSusana RivadeneiraMaría Susana Rivadeneira Simball is a former Miss Ecuador and Top 10 finalist at Miss Universe 2004.-Miss Universe:...
(born 1979), former Miss Ecuador - Susana SeivaneSusana SeivaneSusana Seivane Hoyo is a Galician gaita player. She was born in Barcelona, Spain, into a family of well-known Galician luthiers and musicians, the Seivane family, whose workshop is the Obradoiro de Gaitas Seivane. She started her musical career at the age of three...
(born 1976), Galician gaita player - Susana SomolinosSusana Somolinos-Achievements:-References:* on JudoInside.com...
(born 1977), Spanish judoka - Susana TorrejónSusana TorrejónSusana Torrejón is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed in the early 1990s. At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, she was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-1 500 m event.-References:*...
(born 1960), Spanish Olympian sprint canoer - Susana UrbinaSusana UrbinaSusana Urbina is a Peruvian-American psychologist. She received her Ph.D. in Psychometrics from Fordham University in 1972 and was licensed in Florida in 1976...
(born 1946), Peruvian-American psychologist - Susana VilcaSusana VilcaSusana Gladis Vilca Achata is a Peruvian politician and a Congresswoman representing Puno for the 2006-2011 term. Vilca belongs to the Union for Peru party.-External links:*...
, Peruvian congresswoman - Susana VillaránSusana VillaránSusana María del Carmen Villarán de la Puente is a centre-left politician in Peru, a former presidential candidate, and in municipal elections in 2010 became the first woman to be elected Mayor of Lima....
(born 1949), Peruvian politician - Susana WernerSusana WernerSusana Werner is a Brazilian model and actress.-Personal life:From 1997 to 1999, Susana Werner had a relationship with Brazilian footballer Ronaldo. Later, she married the Brazilian goalkeeper Júlio César...
(born 1977), Brazilian model and actress - Susana ZabaletaSusana ZabaletaSusana Zabaleta Ramos is a Mexican singer and actress.-Early life:Born in Monclova, Coahuila, she moved to Mexico City in 1985. In 1986 she performed in the Sala Ollín Yoliztli and interpreted opera performances, such as La Traviata, Dido and Aeneas and Eneas...
(born 1964), Mexican singer and actress
See also:
- SusannaSusannaSusanna is a feminine first name. It is not very common in the USA, and is found there predominantly among the American Jewish community. It is the name of at least two women in the Bible. It is often spelled Susannah, although Susanna is the original spelling...
- Susannah (given name)Susannah (given name)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.-Notable people bearing the name Susannah include::...
- Susan
- SusieSusieSusie is a female name that can be a diminutive form of Susan, Susanne, Suzanne, Susannah, Susanna or Susana.- Susie :*"Susie", a song by Krokus from Painkiller*"Susie", a song by John Lee Hooker from the album Mr...
- Suzanne
- Susanne (given name)Susanne (given name)Susanne is a feminine given name. It is a German and Scandinavian form of Susan. It may also be spelled Suzanne. People with the name include;* Susanne Antonetta, American poet;* Susanne Bier, Danish film producer, director and writer;...
- Sue (name)Sue (name)Sue is a common short form of the following female given names:*Susan*Susanna / Susannah / Suzanna*Susanne*SuzanneIt is rarely used as a man's name, a notable example being Sue K. Hicks , American jurist, who may have inspired the song A Boy Named Sue....