Sulema — girls' name

What the Data Says About Sulema

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,002 babies named Sulema between 1916 and 2023, spanning 108 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sulema currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1996, when 72 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Sulema performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 360 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Sulema shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,019 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Sulema in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Sulema in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,002 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.