Sully — #3565 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Sully

The Social Security Administration has registered 645 babies named Sully between 1993 and 2024, spanning 32 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Sully currently holds the #3565 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2011, when 42 babies received it in a single year. Sully is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 364 additional births since 1980.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Sully performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 257 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Sully shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Wisconsin, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Sully in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Sully 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 645 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.