Souleymane
Souleymane was given to 20 boys in 2025, #5,019 among boys’ names; 447 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Souleymane by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Souleymane?
#5,019 among boys’ names, 2025
Souleymane rose from #7,952 in 2015 to #5,019 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 5.2 to 11.7 per million.
25 babies in 2007, the peak
Souleymane peaked in 2007, when 25 boys were given it, #4,102 among boys’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 80% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #5,019 | 11.7 |
| 2024 | 23 | #4,545 | 13.3 |
| 2023 | 21 | #4,858 | 12.3 |
| 2022 | 16 | #5,830 | 9.2 |
| 2021 | 13 | #6,618 | 7.4 |
| 2020 | 15 | #5,936 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 20 | #4,934 | 11.1 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,647 | 7.2 |
| 2017 | 17 | #5,489 | 9.2 |
| 2016 | 14 | #6,298 | 7.4 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #7,952 | 5.2 |
| 2014 | 16 | #5,679 | 8.3 |
| 2013 | 12 | #6,955 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 17 | #5,446 | 9.0 |
| 2011 | 18 | #5,164 | 9.5 |
| 2010 | 20 | #4,821 | 10.4 |
| 2009 | 20 | #4,896 | 10.1 |
| 2008 | 15 | #6,020 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 25 | #4,102 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 19 | #4,831 | 9.2 |
| 2005 | 11 | #7,026 | 5.5 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,906 | 5.5 |
| 2003 | 18 | #4,588 | 9.1 |
| 2002 | 15 | #5,094 | 7.7 |
| 2001 | 12 | #5,955 | 6.2 |
| 2000 | 12 | #5,853 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,574 | 3.6 |
| 1998 | 10 | #6,228 | 5.2 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,686 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Souleymane a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Souleymane has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Souleymane: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Souleymane, and how old are they?
An estimated 442 Americans named Souleymane and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 795 people named Souleymane (5 women and girls, 790 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 339 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Souleymane born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 13 | #985 | 7.0× |
Where Souleymane is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Souleymane is most over-represented in New York: since 1995 it was given 7.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Souleymane with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Souleymane
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Souleymane and names like it
- Compare Souleymane and JakobeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSouleymane peaked in 2007.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Souleymane since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Souleymane.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Souleymane alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.