Suleiman
Suleiman was given to 91 boys in 2025, #1,777 among boys’ names; 1,048 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,040 Americans named Suleiman and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 3 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Suleiman by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Suleiman mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Suleiman is “a male given name from Arabic.”
Borrowed from Arabic سُلَيْمَان (sulaymān). Doublet of Solomon.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Suleiman?
#1,777 among boys’ names, 2025
Suleiman rose from #2,637 in 2015 to #1,777 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 24.5 to 53.3 per million.
102 babies in 2023, the peak
Suleiman peaked in 2023, when 102 boys were given it, #1,678 among boys’ names. The 91 births of 2025 are 89% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 91 | #1,777 | 53.3 |
| 2024 | 92 | #1,794 | 53.4 |
| 2023 | 102 | #1,678 | 59.6 |
| 2022 | 59 | #2,403 | 33.8 |
| 2021 | 72 | #2,054 | 41.2 |
| 2020 | 74 | #1,960 | 42.9 |
| 2019 | 66 | #2,167 | 36.8 |
| 2018 | 50 | #2,572 | 27.5 |
| 2017 | 36 | #3,241 | 19.4 |
| 2016 | 43 | #2,831 | 22.7 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 47 | #2,637 | 24.5 |
| 2014 | 40 | #2,922 | 20.8 |
| 2013 | 32 | #3,397 | 16.9 |
| 2012 | 25 | #4,112 | 13.2 |
| 2011 | 20 | #4,797 | 10.5 |
| 2010 | 22 | #4,505 | 11.5 |
| 2009 | 12 | #7,168 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 18 | #5,220 | 8.8 |
| 2007 | 20 | #4,774 | 9.6 |
| 2005 | 9 | #8,202 | 4.5 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,804 | 4.0 |
| 2003 | 9 | #7,741 | 4.6 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,546 | 4.6 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,863 | 5.1 |
| 2000 | 9 | #7,316 | 4.6 |
| 1999 | 5 | #11,380 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,758 | 4.7 |
| 1997 | 6 | #9,109 | 3.2 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,738 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 9 | #6,285 | 4.7 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,517 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 9 | #6,067 | 4.5 |
| 1988 | 7 | #6,331 | 3.7 |
| 1985 | 5 | #7,450 | 2.7 |
| 1983 | 10 | #4,103 | 5.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Suleiman a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Suleiman 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 Suleiman: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Suleiman, and how old are they?
1,040 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,048 Americans ever recorded as Suleiman. The median Suleiman alive today is 7 years old; half are between 3 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 993 people named Suleiman (7 women and girls, 986 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 571 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 51 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 188 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 798 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,067 babies since 1880, Suleiman is the second most given (21% of them). In 2025 it was given to 91 of their 331 babies (27%), again the second 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 Suleiman
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 Suleiman and names like it
- Compare Suleiman and SulaimanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSuleiman peaked in 2023.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Suleiman since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Suleiman: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Suleiman.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Suleiman alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.