Sully

Where Sully comes from

The dictionaries list Sully as a given name — a diminutive of the male given name Sullivan — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1993
    First appearance
    #7,638 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2000
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 2011
    Peak, #2,798
    42 babies named Sully — more than any year before or since.
  4. 2013
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #4,804.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given name Sullivan.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Sully hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.