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Suleiman

#1,777 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Süleyman

Suleiman has been given to 1,048 babies in the U.S. since 1983. In 2025 it ranked #1,777 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 102 recorded.

Babies named Suleiman, 2025

1 in 36,400

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Suleiman: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Süleyman

Arabic

What Suleiman means

Suleiman is a form of Süleyman.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Suleiman → Süleyman → ܫܠܹܝܡܘܿܢ. The family’s meaning is “peace”, recorded in Classical Syriac with the source elements šālōm.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Arabic سُلَيْمَان (sulaymān). Doublet of Solomon.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Suleiman (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Suleiman is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Suleiman comes through Arabic سُلَيْمَان.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Süleyman and Solomon.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,048 boys were recorded with the name Suleiman between 1983 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 102 in 2023; its best national rank was #1,678 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,960 in 2020 to #1,777 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,637 in 2015 to #1,777 in 2025.

How common is Suleiman?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 36,400
91 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 18,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,777
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
25,253 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Suleiman 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 25,253 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Suleiman. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Suleimans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Suleiman was born before 2019 — so the typical Suleiman is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
46.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,048
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 46.8% of all recorded uses (490).

Is Suleiman 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
+17
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+183
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+860
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.94×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
89.2%
Peak was 2023 (102)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,678
2023

Spellings of Suleiman

Suleiman is not the most common spelling — Sullivan is, with 81.0% against Suleiman's 5.4%.

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 Suleiman is used

Across 2016–2025, Suleiman was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 12,500 boys, against 1 in 28,598 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

18 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 12,500
  2. 2Illinois1 in 20,000
  3. 3Ohio1 in 20,000
  4. 4Connecticut1 in 25,000
  5. 5Michigan1 in 25,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 25,000
  7. 7California1 in 33,333
  8. 8Virginia1 in 33,333

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.

Suleiman around the world

Where Suleiman 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
    #593
    in 2025
  • France
    1981–2025
    #2,292
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2001–2024
    #738
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1963–1963
    #563
    in 1963

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

Suleiman by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,777
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 183
Best rank ever
#1,678
2023
Peak year
2023
102 that year
First recorded
1983
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,048
Count in 2025
91

Names similar to Suleiman

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

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Sibling names for Suleiman

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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