Suleman
Suleman was given to 14 boys in 2025, #6,403 among boys’ names; 257 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Suleman by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Suleman?
#6,403 among boys’ names, 2025
Suleman rose from #10,476 in 2015 to #6,403 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.7 to 8.2 per million.
17 babies in 2017, the peak
Suleman peaked in 2017, when 17 boys were given it, #5,491 among boys’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 82% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #6,403 | 8.2 |
| 2024 | 10 | #8,234 | 5.8 |
| 2023 | 11 | #7,662 | 6.4 |
| 2022 | 17 | #5,600 | 9.7 |
| 2021 | 8 | #9,579 | 4.6 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,975 | 5.8 |
| 2019 | 12 | #7,113 | 6.7 |
| 2018 | 12 | #7,071 | 6.6 |
| 2017 | 17 | #5,491 | 9.2 |
| 2016 | 15 | #6,013 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7 | #10,476 | 3.7 |
| 2011 | 7 | #10,627 | 3.7 |
| 2010 | 12 | #7,025 | 6.3 |
| 2009 | 8 | #9,735 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 5 | #14,327 | 2.5 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,821 | 4.3 |
| 2006 | 9 | #8,628 | 4.4 |
| 2005 | 9 | #8,203 | 4.5 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,798 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 7 | #9,458 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,547 | 4.6 |
| 2001 | 7 | #9,098 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,990 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 9 | #7,028 | 4.7 |
| 1998 | 7 | #8,327 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,853 | 3.7 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,962 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Suleman a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Suleman has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Suleman: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Suleman, and how old are they?
An estimated 254 Americans named Suleman and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 672 people named Suleman (5 women and girls, 667 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 188 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.6 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.
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, Suleman is the sixth most given (5.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 302 babies (4.6%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Suleman
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 Suleman and names like it
- Compare Suleman and SulaimanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Suleman since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Suleman.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Suleman alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.