Sulayman
- #2,284 for boys in 2025, 61 births
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 61 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 743since 1989
Sulayman over time
Rank among boys' names. Sulayman has never cracked the top 2,000 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 | #2,284 | 61 |
| 2024 | #3,335 | 35 |
| 2023 | #3,055 | 40 |
| 2022 | #3,412 | 34 |
| 2021 | #3,121 | 38 |
| 2020 | #3,570 | 30 |
| 2019 | #3,571 | 31 |
| 2018 | #4,226 | 24 |
| 2017 | #2,715 | 45 |
| 2016 | #3,161 | 36 |
| 2015 | #4,295 | 23 |
| 2014 | #5,066 | 18 |
| 2013 | #4,463 | 21 |
| 2012 | #4,686 | 20 |
| 2011 | #3,885 | 26 |
| 2010 | #4,517 | 21 |
| 2009 | #4,160 | 24 |
| 2008 | #5,487 | 16 |
| 2007 | #3,687 | 28 |
| 2006 | #4,223 | 22 |
| 2005 | #4,824 | 17 |
| 2004 | #5,246 | 15 |
| 2003 | #4,815 | 16 |
| 2002 | #4,502 | 17 |
| 2001 | #4,890 | 15 |
| 2000 | #6,316 | 10 |
| 1999 | #6,530 | 9 |
| 1998 | #6,314 | 9 |
| 1997 | #8,110 | 6 |
| 1996 | #6,496 | 8 |
| 1995 | #8,868 | 5 |
| 1994 | #6,968 | 7 |
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| 1992 | #8,435 | 5 |
| 1991 | #7,271 | 6 |
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| 1989 | #7,905 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Sulayman! It came in at #7,905, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1989–1990, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Sulayman is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Illinois#1,133 · 1 in 8,259
- North Carolina#1,277 · 1 in 10,294
- New York#1,297 · 1 in 10,553
- California#1,582 · 1 in 17,547
- Texas#2,285 · 1 in 29,175
Best ever in a state: #1,062 in Georgia, 2002.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Illinois | #1,133 | 6 | 1 in 8,259 |
| North Carolina | #1,277 | 5 | 1 in 10,294 |
| New York | #1,297 | 8 | 1 in 10,553 |
| California | #1,582 | 10 | 1 in 17,547 |
| Texas | #2,285 | 6 | 1 in 29,175 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Sulayman
- 1,286 spots since 2020 (#3,570 → #2,284)
- Debuted 1989
- Peaked 2025 at #2,284 (61 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 28,001 boys born in 2025 were named Sulayman (0.00%)
- 35.7% of all boys named Sulayman (265) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1980s | 5 | #7,905 (1989) | #7,905 |
| 1990s | 55 | #6,314 (1998) | #7,374 |
| 2000s | 180 | #3,687 (2007) | #4,815 |
| 2010s | 265 | #2,715 (2017) | #4,059 |
| 2020s | 238 | #2,284 (2025) | #3,130 |
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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