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Suleika

#11,809 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Arabic origin

Suleika has been given to 155 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #11,809 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Suleika, 2025

1 in 414,000

Suleika over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Suleika: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Arabic origin

Arabic

What Suleika means

Suleika is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Suleika is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 155 girls were recorded with the name Suleika between 1988 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2008; its best national rank was #7,994 in 1992.

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.

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How common is Suleika?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,809
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Suleika sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Suleika. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Suleikas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Suleika was born before 2001 — so the typical Suleika is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
36.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
52.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
155
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Choose a decade

1990s — 36.1% of all recorded uses (56).

Is Suleika 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
66.7%
Peak was 2008 (12)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,994
1992

Spellings of Suleika

Suleika is not the most common spelling — Sulema is, with 35.2% against Suleika's 2.7%.

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 Suleika is used

Across 1910–2025, Suleika was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,501,280 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Suleika has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Suleika by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,809
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#7,994
1992
Peak year
2008
12 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
155
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Suleika

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

SuleymaPranikaSulamitaAadvikaNishikaTanvikaSanvikaKritikaAshvikaHanvikaNainikaAdhvikaSultanaAarvikaSuleimaNaomikaAmerikaShivikaParnikaNavikaAarnikaArnikaArshikaAnshika

Sibling names for Suleika

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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