Sulaiman
- #1,585 for boys in 2025, 107 births
- Peak · boys
- 2023 · 119 births
- Debut · boys
- 10 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,872since 1972
Sulaiman over time
Rank among boys' names. Sulaiman has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,585 | 107 |
| 2024 | #1,521 | 116 |
| 2023 | #1,498 | 119 |
| 2022 | #1,611 | 108 |
| 2021 | #1,915 | 79 |
| 2020 | #1,634 | 98 |
| 2019 | #1,755 | 89 |
| 2018 | #1,959 | 75 |
| 2017 | #1,661 | 95 |
| 2016 | #1,903 | 77 |
| 2015 | #2,068 | 68 |
| 2014 | #1,828 | 81 |
| 2013 | #2,668 | 44 |
| 2012 | #2,678 | 45 |
| 2011 | #3,000 | 38 |
| 2010 | #2,511 | 49 |
| 2009 | #3,551 | 30 |
| 2008 | #3,823 | 27 |
| 2007 | #3,591 | 29 |
| 2006 | #4,001 | 24 |
| 2005 | #3,022 | 34 |
| 2004 | #3,860 | 23 |
| 2003 | #3,626 | 24 |
| 2002 | #3,670 | 23 |
| 2001 | #3,842 | 21 |
| 2000 | #4,389 | 17 |
| 1999 | #3,834 | 19 |
| 1998 | #4,197 | 16 |
| 1997 | #2,903 | 26 |
| 1996 | #4,022 | 16 |
| 1995 | #5,124 | 11 |
| 1994 | #5,109 | 11 |
| 1993 | #3,501 | 18 |
| 1992 | #3,338 | 19 |
| 1991 | #4,476 | 12 |
| 1990 | #4,407 | 12 |
| 1989 | #4,811 | 10 |
| 1988 | #5,751 | 7 |
| 1987 | #4,573 | 9 |
| 1986 | #5,332 | 7 |
| 1985 | #4,333 | 9 |
| 1984 | #3,270 | 13 |
| 1983 | #2,912 | 15 |
| 1982 | #4,234 | 9 |
| 1981 | #3,858 | 10 |
| 1980 | #5,525 | 6 |
| 1979 | #4,068 | 9 |
| 1978 | #4,554 | 7 |
| 1977 | #3,606 | 10 |
| 1976 | #4,012 | 8 |
| 1975 | #3,078 | 12 |
| 1974 | #3,318 | 10 |
| 1973 | #3,013 | 11 |
| 1972 | #3,152 | 10 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Sulaiman! It came in at #3,152, and was given to 10 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1978–1980, when fewer than 10 boys a year got the name.
Where Sulaiman is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Minnesota | #640 | 7 | 1 in 3,500 |
| Virginia | #727 | 9 | 1 in 4,139 |
| Michigan | #768 | 9 | 1 in 4,466 |
| Illinois | #870 | 9 | 1 in 5,506 |
| New York | #994 | 12 | 1 in 7,035 |
| Texas | #1,217 | 17 | 1 in 10,297 |
| California | #1,829 | 8 | 1 in 21,934 |
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See more about Sulaiman
- 64 spots since 2024 (#1,521 → #1,585)
- 49 spots since 2020 (#1,634 → #1,585)
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 2023 at #1,498 (119 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 14,375 boys born in 2023 were named Sulaiman (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 15,963 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 35.3% of all boys named Sulaiman (661) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1970s | 77 | #3,013 (1973) | #3,600 |
| 1980s | 95 | #2,912 (1983) | #4,460 |
| 1990s | 160 | #2,903 (1997) | #4,091 |
| 2000s | 252 | #3,022 (2005) | #3,738 |
| 2010s | 661 | #1,661 (2017) | #2,203 |
| 2020s | 627 | #1,498 (2023) | #1,627 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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