Sulaiman
Sulaiman was given to 107 boys in 2025, #1,597 among boys’ names; 1,872 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,840 Americans named Sulaiman and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sulaiman by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Sulaiman mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Sulaiman is “a male given name, Sulaiman, from Arabic”
Borrowed from Arabic سُلَيْمَان (sulaymān).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Sulaiman?
#1,597 among boys’ names, 2025
Sulaiman rose from #2,085 in 2015 to #1,597 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 35.5 to 62.6 per million.
119 babies in 2023, the peak
Sulaiman peaked in 2023, when 119 boys were given it, #1,500 among boys’ names. The 107 births of 2025 are 90% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 107 | #1,597 | 62.6 |
| 2024 | 116 | #1,526 | 67.3 |
| 2023 | 119 | #1,500 | 69.6 |
| 2022 | 108 | #1,623 | 61.9 |
| 2021 | 79 | #1,927 | 45.2 |
| 2020 | 98 | #1,645 | 56.8 |
| 2019 | 89 | #1,761 | 49.6 |
| 2018 | 75 | #1,975 | 41.3 |
| 2017 | 95 | #1,680 | 51.3 |
| 2016 | 77 | #1,918 | 40.6 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 68 | #2,085 | 35.5 |
| 2014 | 81 | #1,841 | 42.2 |
| 2013 | 44 | #2,704 | 23.3 |
| 2012 | 45 | #2,708 | 23.7 |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,035 | 20.0 |
| 2010 | 49 | #2,547 | 25.5 |
| 2009 | 30 | #3,623 | 15.1 |
| 2008 | 27 | #3,905 | 13.2 |
| 2007 | 29 | #3,676 | 14.0 |
| 2006 | 24 | #4,081 | 11.7 |
| 2005 | 34 | #3,076 | 17.0 |
| 2004 | 23 | #3,979 | 11.6 |
| 2003 | 24 | #3,707 | 12.1 |
| 2002 | 23 | #3,765 | 11.8 |
| 2001 | 21 | #3,950 | 10.8 |
| 2000 | 17 | #4,534 | 8.7 |
| 1999 | 19 | #3,960 | 9.9 |
| 1998 | 16 | #4,383 | 8.4 |
| 1997 | 26 | #2,967 | 13.8 |
| 1996 | 16 | #4,158 | 8.4 |
| 1995 | 11 | #5,450 | 5.8 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,400 | 5.7 |
| 1993 | 18 | #3,631 | 9.2 |
| 1992 | 19 | #3,437 | 9.5 |
| 1991 | 12 | #4,718 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 12 | #4,633 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 10 | #5,112 | 5.0 |
| 1988 | 7 | #6,330 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,902 | 4.8 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,849 | 3.8 |
| 1985 | 9 | #4,642 | 4.9 |
| 1984 | 13 | #3,429 | 7.2 |
| 1983 | 15 | #3,052 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,538 | 5.0 |
| 1981 | 10 | #4,111 | 5.6 |
| 1980 | 6 | #6,147 | 3.4 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,355 | 5.2 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,986 | 4.3 |
| 1977 | 10 | #3,808 | 6.1 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,370 | 5.1 |
| 1975 | 12 | #3,214 | 7.7 |
| 1974 | 10 | #3,534 | 6.4 |
| 1973 | 11 | #3,187 | 7.1 |
| 1972 | 10 | #3,315 | 6.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Sulaiman a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sulaiman has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sulaiman: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sulaiman, and how old are they?
1,840 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,872 Americans ever recorded as Sulaiman. The median Sulaiman alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 1,732 people named Sulaiman (9 women and girls, 1,723 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,249 born in the U.S. The Census count is 39% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 75 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 179 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 438 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,150 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Sulaiman born?
The states with the most babies named Sulaiman are Texas, New York and Illinois, with 54% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 17 | #1,248 | 0.7× |
| New York | 12 | #1,046 | 1.7× |
| Illinois | 9 | #922 | 1.1× |
| Virginia | 9 | #786 | 1.6× |
| Michigan | 9 | #823 | 0.5× |
| California | 8 | #1,966 | 0.6× |
| Minnesota | 7 | #706 | 0.2× |
Where Sulaiman is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sulaiman is most over-represented in New York: since 1972 it was given 1.7 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 Sulaiman with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 4,545 babies since 1880, Sulaiman is the most given (41% of them). In 2025 it was given to 107 of their 302 babies (35%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Sulaiman
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 Sulaiman and names like it
- Compare Sulaiman and SuleimanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSulaiman peaked in 2023.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sulaiman since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Sulaiman.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Sulaiman alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.