Sully
- #13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births
- #3,314 for boys in 2025, 35 births
- Given to boys 64.8% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2011 · 42 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 680since 1993
Sully over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | #3,314 | 35 |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 | #3,524 | 32 |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | #4,002 | 27 |
| 2022 | #10,383 | 9 | #5,445 | 17 |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 | #3,582 | 31 |
| 2020 | #10,250 | 9 | #4,540 | 21 |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 | #4,639 | 21 |
| 2018 | #10,545 | 9 | #4,094 | 25 |
| 2017 | #8,776 | 12 | #4,594 | 21 |
| 2016 | — | #4,624 | 21 | |
| 2015 | #13,006 | 7 | #5,289 | 17 |
| 2014 | #13,069 | 7 | #4,138 | 24 |
| 2013 | #14,582 | 6 | #4,804 | 19 |
| 2012 | — | #3,231 | 34 | |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #2,798 | 42 |
| 2010 | #9,790 | 11 | #3,308 | 33 |
| 2009 | #13,704 | 7 | #3,399 | 32 |
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 | #4,044 | 25 |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | #4,243 | 23 |
| 2006 | #12,420 | 8 | #4,105 | 23 |
| 2005 | — | #4,062 | 22 | |
| 2004 | — | #4,264 | 20 | |
| 2003 | — | #4,426 | 18 | |
| 2002 | — | #3,670 | 23 | |
| 2001 | #15,352 | 5 | #4,890 | 15 |
| 2000 | #15,031 | 5 | #6,839 | 9 |
| 1999 | #12,688 | 6 | — | |
| 1998 | — | #5,466 | 11 | |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 | #8,110 | 6 |
| 1996 | — | #4,185 | 15 | |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 | #6,992 | 7 |
| 1994 | — | #8,800 | 5 | |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 | #7,638 | 6 |
| 1992 | #8,065 | 10 | — | |
| 1991 | #6,976 | 12 | — | |
| 1990 | #4,523 | 21 | — | |
| 1989 | #3,566 | 28 | — | |
| 1988 | #6,666 | 11 | — | |
| 1987 | #4,474 | 18 | — | |
| 1986 | #4,028 | 20 | — | |
| 1985 | #3,730 | 22 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,382 | 40 | — | |
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| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 | — | |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | — | |
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First appearance
1993
The first year at least five boys were named Sully! It came in at #7,638, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1999, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Sully is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Sully in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Sully
Momentum · boys
Rising
- 210 spots since 2024 (#3,524 → #3,314)
- 1,226 spots since 2020 (#4,540 → #3,314)
- 1,975 spots since 2015 (#5,289 → #3,314)
Rise & fade · boys
18 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1993
- Peaked 2011 at #2,798 (42 births)
- Births halved by 2013, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 45,220
- Highest: 1 in 45,220 boys born in 2011 were named Sully (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 48,802 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 37.8% of all boys named Sully (257) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2000
- Mostly girls until 1999, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 50 | #4,185 (1996) | #6,865 |
| 2000s | 210 | #3,399 (2009) | #4,394 |
| 2010s | 257 | #2,798 (2011) | #4,152 |
| 2020s | 163 | #3,314 (2025) | #4,068 |
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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