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Shoshanna

Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
US rank, 2025
#10,104 for girls

Shoshanna is a girls' name of Hebrew origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).

What does Shoshanna mean?

Hebrew: spelling of Shoshana

A female given name from Hebrew.

Meaning borrowed from Shoshana. From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Is Shoshanna a girl's or a boy's name?

Shoshanna is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Shoshanna in the US?

Rank in 2025
10,104th among girls
Babies in 2025
9 about 1 in 180,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to call too few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 9 girls in the US were named Shoshanna, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 1980, with 26 girls. It first appears in the records in 1960.

Half of all the girls named Shoshanna in the US since 1880 were born between 1981 and 2010, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 132 girls in the US were given Shoshanna or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,393, up from #10,104 for this spelling alone.

1960Busiest: 26 in 19802025
Shoshanna in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20259#10,104
20249#10,266
20237#12,192
202214#7,626
20217#12,201
20200–
201918#6,410
201817#6,788
201713#8,295
201624#5,444
201519#6,450
201420#6,205
201311#9,607
201215#7,800
201122#5,932
201013#8,697
20097#13,698
20088#12,574
20077#13,918
200610#10,606
20059#10,915
20049#10,684
20038#11,319
200217#6,386
200120#5,565
200022#5,146
199919#5,418
199814#6,714
199721#4,815
199618#5,275
199526#3,964
199415#5,978
199314#6,257
199212#7,060
199114#6,247
199011#7,297
198914#5,830
198811#6,661
198712#5,918
198619#4,184
19857#8,315
198413#5,221
198314#4,883
198221#3,779
198125#3,340
198026#3,215
197918#4,051
197818#3,924
197719#3,760
197619#3,539
197514#4,368
197410#5,359
197314#4,154
197212#4,522
197110#5,134
19709#5,412
19695#7,469
19680–
19670–
19660–
19650–
19649#4,635
19630–
19620–
19610–
19605#6,389

Names like Shoshanna

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Shoshanna

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Shoshanna: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/shoshanna, updated 20 October 2026.