Sulema
Sulema was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,719 among girls’ names; 2,008 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,640 Americans named Sulema and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (82% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 28 and 61.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sulema by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sulema?
#14,719 among girls’ names, 2025
Sulema fell from #7,956 in 2015 to #14,719 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 8.4 to 3.7 per million.
72 babies in 1996, the peak
Sulema peaked in 1996, when 72 girls were given it, #1,976 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,719 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 8 | #12,059 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,422 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,471 | 6.7 |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,319 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,835 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,603 | 4.6 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,675 | 5.1 |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,956 | 8.4 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,856 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (106)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 6 | #16,309 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 15 | #8,165 | 8.5 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,566 | 8.0 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,841 | 9.0 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,412 | 8.2 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,906 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 16 | #8,046 | 8.3 |
| 2006 | 22 | #6,101 | 11.6 |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,235 | 13.5 |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,474 | 16.9 |
| 2003 | 31 | #4,290 | 17.0 |
| 2002 | 19 | #6,096 | 10.6 |
| 2001 | 39 | #3,476 | 21.7 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,766 | 13.8 |
| 1999 | 37 | #3,432 | 20.9 |
| 1998 | 37 | #3,341 | 20.9 |
| 1997 | 32 | #3,612 | 18.4 |
| 1996 | 72 | #1,976 | 41.1 |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,197 | 14.2 |
| 1994 | 31 | #3,595 | 17.4 |
| 1993 | 35 | #3,275 | 19.3 |
| 1992 | 31 | #3,564 | 16.8 |
| 1991 | 26 | #4,038 | 13.9 |
| 1990 | 34 | #3,280 | 17.9 |
| 1989 | 18 | #5,026 | 9.8 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,632 | 10.7 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,576 | 8.1 |
| 1986 | 23 | #3,745 | 13.4 |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,828 | 12.8 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,301 | 10.7 |
| 1983 | 25 | #3,325 | 15.0 |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,752 | 13.0 |
| 1981 | 28 | #3,135 | 16.8 |
| 1980 | 27 | #3,202 | 16.3 |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,427 | 15.0 |
| 1978 | 26 | #3,084 | 17.0 |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,739 | 13.0 |
| 1976 | 19 | #3,657 | 13.0 |
| 1975 | 19 | #3,620 | 13.0 |
| 1974 | 24 | #2,997 | 16.4 |
| 1973 | 32 | #2,394 | 21.9 |
| 1972 | 19 | #3,390 | 12.5 |
| 1971 | 20 | #3,356 | 12.0 |
| 1970 | 15 | #4,018 | 8.6 |
| 1969 | 21 | #2,998 | 12.4 |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,293 | 10.4 |
| 1967 | 31 | #2,160 | 18.8 |
| 1966 | 20 | #2,832 | 11.8 |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,520 | 7.9 |
| 1964 | 30 | #2,240 | 15.8 |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,314 | 8.3 |
| 1962 | 25 | #2,453 | 12.7 |
| 1961 | 22 | #2,664 | 10.9 |
| 1960 | 23 | #2,565 | 11.4 |
| 1959 | 25 | #2,331 | 12.4 |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,848 | 8.9 |
| 1957 | 27 | #2,162 | 13.2 |
| 1956 | 18 | #2,805 | 9.0 |
| 1955 | 17 | #2,828 | 8.7 |
| 1954 | 19 | #2,587 | 9.8 |
| 1953 | 21 | #2,356 | 11.2 |
| 1952 | 31 | #1,816 | 16.7 |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,796 | 8.3 |
| 1950 | 20 | #2,242 | 11.7 |
| 1949 | 24 | #2,005 | 14.0 |
| 1948 | 23 | #2,061 | 13.5 |
| 1947 | 23 | #2,080 | 13.0 |
| 1946 | 22 | #2,016 | 14.0 |
| 1945 | 16 | #2,228 | 12.2 |
| 1944 | 22 | #1,862 | 16.6 |
| 1943 | 17 | #2,239 | 12.2 |
| 1942 | 18 | #2,107 | 13.3 |
| 1941 | 20 | #1,874 | 16.6 |
| 1940 | 16 | #2,093 | 14.0 |
| 1939 | 15 | #2,196 | 13.7 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,907 | 9.1 |
| 1937 | 14 | #2,301 | 13.2 |
| 1936 | 16 | #2,018 | 15.4 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,420 | 12.4 |
| 1934 | 15 | #2,168 | 14.4 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,374 | 7.9 |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,616 | 11.2 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,622 | 7.1 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,501 | 5.4 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,342 | 4.3 |
| 1927 | 10 | #3,257 | 8.4 |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,522 | 7.6 |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,335 | 8.2 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,386 | 5.6 |
| 1923 | 11 | #3,099 | 9.1 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,940 | 5.0 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,397 | 5.7 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,914 | 6.7 |
| 1919 | 7 | #4,201 | 6.2 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,746 | 5.2 |
| 1916 | 5 | #5,065 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sulema a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sulema has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 106 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sulema: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sulema, and how old are they?
1,640 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 82% of the 2,008 Americans ever recorded as Sulema. The median Sulema alive today is 42 years old; half are between 28 and 61.
The 2020 Census counted 2,040 people named Sulema (2,035 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,693 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 82 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 325 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 323 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 431 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 383 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 92 |
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 Sulema born?
The states with the most babies named Sulema are Texas, California and Illinois, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 1,019 | not ranked | 6.7× |
| California | 372 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Sulema is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sulema is most over-represented in Texas: since 1916 it was given 6.7 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 girls’ 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 Sulema 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,083 babies since 1880, Sulema is the most given (65% of them).
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 Sulema
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 Sulema and names like it
- Compare Sulema and SulmaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sSulema peaked in 1996.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sulema since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Sulema.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Sulema alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.