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Sulaiman

#1,597 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Sulayman

Sulaiman has been given to 1,872 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #1,597 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 119 recorded.

Babies named Sulaiman, 2025

1 in 31,000

Sulaiman over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sulaiman: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Sulayman

Arabic

What Sulaiman means

Sulaiman is a alternate transcription of Sulayman.

Origin, language, and formation

Sulaiman is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Sulaiman comes through Arabic سُلَيْمَان.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sulayman.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,872 boys were recorded with the name Sulaiman between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 119 in 2023; its best national rank was #1,500 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,645 in 2020 to #1,597 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,085 in 2015 to #1,597 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Sulaiman?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 31,000
107 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 16,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,597
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
21,477 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sulaiman sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 21,477 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sulaiman. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sulaimans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sulaiman was born before 2016 — so the typical Sulaiman is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
35.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
81.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,872
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 35.3% of all recorded uses (661).

Is Sulaiman rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−71
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+48
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+488
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.57×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
89.9%
Peak was 2023 (119)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,500
2023

Spellings of Sulaiman

Sulaiman is not the most common spelling — Sullivan is, with 81.0% against Sulaiman's 9.7%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Sulaiman is used

Across 2016–2025, Sulaiman was most concentrated in Virginia — about 1 in 6,250 boys, against 1 in 17,112 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in 100,000).

116 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Virginia1 in 6,250
  2. 2New York1 in 7,143
  3. 3Illinois1 in 12,500
  4. 4Michigan1 in 14,286
  5. 5California1 in 16,667
  6. 6Texas1 in 16,667
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 20,000
  8. 8Maryland1 in 25,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Sulaiman around the world

Where Sulaiman ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #418
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2004–2025
    #762
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2017–2024
    #785
    in 2024
  • France
    2006–2025
    #2,311
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1996–2024
    #622
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2010–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Sulaiman by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,597
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 48
Best rank ever
#1,500
2023
Peak year
2023
119 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,872
Count in 2025
107

Names similar to Sulaiman

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Sulaiman

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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