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Sultana

Girls' name

Feminine form of Sultan

Sultana has been given to 275 babies in the U.S. since 1948. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2024, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Sultana, 2024

1 in 239,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sultana: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Sultan

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sultana means

Sultana is a feminine form of Sultan.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Sultana is used in Arabic, Urdu and Bengali.

Another recorded pronunciation is /sul.ˈtˤaː.na/ and /ˈsul.t̪a.na/ for Sultana.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Sultana → Sultan → سُلْطَان. The family’s meaning is “power, strength”, recorded in Arabic with the source elements سلطان.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sultan.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 275 girls were recorded with the name Sultana between 1948 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2024; its best national rank was #5,175 in 1948.

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 Sultana?

Sultana had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 239,000
14 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 116,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
165,505 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sultana 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 2024 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 165,505 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sultana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sultanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sultana was born before 1999 — so the typical Sultana is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
22.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
49.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
269
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 22.5% of all recorded uses (62).

Is Sultana 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
0%
Peak was 2024 (14)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,175
1948

Spellings of Sultana

Sultana is not the most common spelling — Juliana is, with 61.0% against Sultana's 0.25%.

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 Sultana is used

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

00 per 100,000

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

Sultana around the world

Where Sultana 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
    1996–2024
    #3,319
    in 2024
  • France
    1935–2025
    #4,095
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2024–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1963–1976
    #645
    in 1976

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.

Sultana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#5,175
1948
Peak year
2024
14 that year
First recorded
1948
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
275
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sultana

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

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Sibling names for Sultana

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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