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Suliman

#7,610 in 2025Boys' name

Transliteration of Сулиман

Suliman has been given to 286 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #7,610 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Suliman, 2025

1 in 301,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Suliman: meaning, origin, and history

Transliteration of Сулиман

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Suliman means

Suliman is a transliteration of Сулиман.

Origin, language, and formation

Suliman is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Сулиман.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 286 boys were recorded with the name Suliman between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 2024; its best national rank was #4,546 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,637 in 2020 to #7,610 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,627 in 2015 to #7,610 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.

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How common is Suliman?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 155,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,610
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Suliman 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Suliman. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sulimans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Suliman was born before 2014 — so the typical Suliman is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
38.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
80.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
286
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 38.8% of all recorded uses (111).

Is Suliman 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
−3,064
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,027
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−983
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.85×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
47.8%
Peak was 2024 (23)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,546
2024

Spellings of Suliman

Suliman is not the most common spelling — Julian is, with 90.8% against Suliman's 0.10%.

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 Suliman is used

Across 1910–2025, Suliman was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,067,137 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Virginia1 in —

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. Suliman has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Suliman around the world

Where Suliman 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
    #2,014
    in 2025
  • France
    1971–2022
    #7,166
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2017–2017
    #2,091
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1995–1995
    #533
    in 1995

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.

Suliman by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,610
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,027
Best rank ever
#4,546
2024
Peak year
2024
23 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
286
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Suliman

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

SulemanSuleymanSulaymanSuleimanSulaimanSuliemanKolemanWilmanUthmanNachmanOusmanFirmanSullyGurmanSukhmanWhitmanChapmanTruemanSolimanOthmanAryamanHillmanHelamanStedman

Sibling names for Suliman

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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