Sulayman
Sulayman was given to 61 boys in 2025, #2,300 among boys’ names; 743 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sulayman by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sulayman?
#2,300 among boys’ names, 2025
Sulayman rose from #4,385 in 2015 to #2,300 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 12.0 to 35.7 per million.
61 babies in 2025, the peak
Sulayman peaked in 2025, when 61 boys were given it, #2,300 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 35 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 61 | #2,300 | 35.7 |
| 2024 | 35 | #3,386 | 20.3 |
| 2023 | 40 | #3,106 | 23.4 |
| 2022 | 34 | #3,454 | 19.5 |
| 2021 | 38 | #3,167 | 21.7 |
| 2020 | 30 | #3,640 | 17.4 |
| 2019 | 31 | #3,623 | 17.3 |
| 2018 | 24 | #4,329 | 13.2 |
| 2017 | 45 | #2,752 | 24.3 |
| 2016 | 36 | #3,214 | 19.0 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #4,385 | 12.0 |
| 2014 | 18 | #5,227 | 9.4 |
| 2013 | 21 | #4,599 | 11.1 |
| 2012 | 20 | #4,830 | 10.5 |
| 2011 | 26 | #3,971 | 13.7 |
| 2010 | 21 | #4,654 | 10.9 |
| 2009 | 24 | #4,261 | 12.1 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,727 | 7.8 |
| 2007 | 28 | #3,779 | 13.5 |
| 2006 | 22 | #4,348 | 10.7 |
| 2005 | 17 | #5,004 | 8.5 |
| 2004 | 15 | #5,449 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 16 | #5,004 | 8.1 |
| 2002 | 17 | #4,671 | 8.8 |
| 2001 | 15 | #5,098 | 7.7 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,756 | 5.1 |
| 1999 | 9 | #7,027 | 4.7 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,757 | 4.7 |
| 1997 | 6 | #9,108 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 8 | #7,030 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 5 | #10,124 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,647 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 5 | #9,630 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 6 | #8,103 | 3.0 |
| 1989 | 5 | #9,060 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Sulayman a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sulayman has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sulayman: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sulayman, and how old are they?
An estimated 735 Americans named Sulayman and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 616 people named Sulayman (6 women and girls, 610 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 507 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 4,545 babies since 1880, Sulayman is the third most given (16% of them). In 2025 it was given to 61 of their 302 babies (20%), again the third 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 Sulayman
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.
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