Name: Shoshana
Gender: Female
Usage: Shoshana, of hebrew origin, is a popular first name. It is more often used as a girl (female) name.
People having the name Shoshana are in general originating from Israel, Spain, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Variants: For another variant of the name Shoshana across the world, see Shoshanah.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Shoshana is: Lily.
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Numerology of the first name Shoshana: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 4. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: traditional, organized, self-disciplined, steady, logical, practical, helpful, reliable.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Practical, Dependable
Ruling planet: Uranus
Colors: Blue, Gray
Gemstones: Sapphire
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The name Shoshana is ranked on the 10,596th position of the most used names. It means that this name is commonly used.
We estimate that there are at least 23600 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.001% of the population. The name Shoshana has eight characters. It means that it is relatively long-length, compared to the other names in our database.
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History and Origin
Shoshana (Shoshanna(h)) (שושנה) is a Hebrew feminine first name. It is the name of at least two women in the Bible, and via Σουσάννα (Sousanna), it developed into such European names as Susanna, Susan, Susanne, Susana, Susannah, Suzanne, Suzie and Sanna. The original Hebrew form Shoshana, from which all these are ultimately derived, is still commonly used in contemporary Israel, often shortened to "Shosh" or "Shoshi". In Biblical times "shoshana" referred to a lily (from Lilium family); in modern Hebrew it is often understood as referring to a rose.
It may refer to:
- Shoshana Arbeli-Almozlino (born 1926), former Israeli politician who served as Minister of Health between 1986 and 1988
- Shoshana Bean (born 1977), American stage actress and singer known for her roles in Broadway musicals during the 2000s
- Shoshana Bush (born 1988), American actress
- Shoshana Damari (1923–2006), Yemenite-Israeli singer known as the queen of Hebrew music
- Shoshana Felman, Woodruff Professor of Comparative Literature and French at Emory University
- Shoshana Johnson (born 1973), Panamanian former United States soldier, the U.S. first black female prisoner of war
- Shoshana Kamin, Soviet-born Israeli mathematician
- Shoshana Netanyahu (born 1923), Israeli lawyer and judge, a former justice of the Supreme Court of Israel
- Shoshana Parsitz (1892–1969), Zionist activist, educator and Israeli politician
- Shoshana Riseman (born 1948), Israeli music educator, stage director and composer
- Shoshana Rudiakov, Latvian pianist
- Shoshana Zuboff (born 1951), the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School (retired)
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