Suleyman
Suleyman was given to 18 boys in 2025, #5,363 among boys’ names; 339 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Suleyman by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Suleyman?
#5,363 among boys’ names, 2025
Suleyman rose from #7,010 in 2015 to #5,363 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 6.3 to 10.5 per million.
29 babies in 2024, the peak
Suleyman peaked in 2024, when 29 boys were given it, #3,883 among boys’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 62% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #5,363 | 10.5 |
| 2024 | 29 | #3,883 | 16.8 |
| 2023 | 21 | #4,862 | 12.3 |
| 2022 | 23 | #4,547 | 13.2 |
| 2021 | 20 | #4,905 | 11.4 |
| 2020 | 20 | #4,832 | 11.6 |
| 2019 | 27 | #3,982 | 15.0 |
| 2018 | 17 | #5,506 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 14 | #6,291 | 7.6 |
| 2016 | 20 | #4,916 | 10.5 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #7,010 | 6.3 |
| 2014 | 17 | #5,451 | 8.9 |
| 2013 | 12 | #6,960 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 7 | #10,608 | 3.7 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,432 | 5.8 |
| 2010 | 8 | #9,552 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 10 | #8,222 | 5.0 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,883 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 11 | #7,516 | 5.3 |
| 2006 | 9 | #8,629 | 4.4 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,996 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 5 | #12,512 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 7 | #9,252 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,991 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Suleyman a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Suleyman has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Suleyman: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Suleyman, and how old are they?
An estimated 336 Americans named Suleyman and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 14. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 553 people named Suleyman (4 women and girls, 549 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 211 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.6 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).
How common is the spelling Suleyman?
Suleyman is a less common spelling of Sulaiman: SSA has recorded 339 Suleyman and 1,872 Sulaiman since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 4,545 babies since 1880, Suleyman is the fourth most given (7.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 302 babies (6.0%), again the fourth 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 Suleyman
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 Suleyman and names like it
- Compare Suleyman and SulaimanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Suleyman.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Suleyman alive today were born 2013-2025.
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