Sultan
#1,241 for boys in 2025, 161 births
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 161 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,396since 1966
Sultan over time
Rank among boys' names. Sultan 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 | #1,241 | 161 |
| 2024 | #1,290 | 152 |
| 2023 | #1,420 | 128 |
| 2022 | #1,306 | 145 |
| 2021 | #1,583 | 109 |
| 2020 | #1,423 | 121 |
| 2019 | #1,614 | 102 |
| 2018 | #1,553 | 108 |
| 2017 | #1,707 | 92 |
| 2016 | #1,628 | 98 |
| 2015 | #2,036 | 70 |
| 2014 | #2,277 | 58 |
| 2013 | #2,492 | 49 |
| 2012 | #2,326 | 55 |
| 2011 | #2,748 | 43 |
| 2010 | #2,874 | 41 |
| 2009 | #3,223 | 35 |
| 2008 | #4,044 | 25 |
| 2007 | #4,996 | 18 |
| 2006 | #3,686 | 27 |
| 2005 | #3,172 | 32 |
| 2004 | #2,953 | 34 |
| 2003 | #3,443 | 26 |
| 2002 | #2,755 | 34 |
| 2001 | #2,429 | 40 |
| 2000 | #3,640 | 22 |
| 1999 | #3,031 | 27 |
| 1998 | #2,599 | 32 |
| 1997 | #3,160 | 23 |
| 1996 | #3,021 | 24 |
| 1995 | #2,762 | 26 |
| 1994 | #2,847 | 25 |
| 1993 | #3,141 | 21 |
| 1992 | #3,459 | 18 |
| 1991 | #2,753 | 24 |
| 1990 | #3,309 | 18 |
| 1989 | #2,902 | 21 |
| 1988 | #2,765 | 20 |
| 1987 | #3,201 | 15 |
| 1986 | #3,268 | 14 |
| 1985 | #2,427 | 21 |
| 1984 | #2,956 | 15 |
| 1983 | #3,630 | 11 |
| 1982 | #2,972 | 15 |
| 1981 | #2,496 | 19 |
| 1980 | #2,965 | 15 |
| 1979 | #2,236 | 22 |
| 1978 | #2,568 | 17 |
| 1977 | #2,556 | 17 |
| 1976 | #1,781 | 28 |
| 1975 | #1,835 | 26 |
| 1974 | #2,129 | 20 |
| 1973 | #2,606 | 14 |
| 1972 | #4,441 | 6 |
| 1971 | #3,658 | 8 |
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| 1966 | #2,784 | 9 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Sultan! It came in at #2,784, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1967–1970, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Sultan is popular in 2024
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#654 · 1 in 3,931
- Virginia#697 · 1 in 4,194
- Michigan#703 · 1 in 3,998
- New Jersey#816 · 1 in 5,704
- Washington#885 · 1 in 5,419
Best ever in a state: #441 in New Jersey, 1979.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #654 | 22 | 1 in 3,931 |
| Virginia | #697 | 9 | 1 in 4,194 |
| Michigan | #703 | 10 | 1 in 3,998 |
| New Jersey | #816 | 7 | 1 in 5,704 |
| Washington | #885 | 6 | 1 in 5,419 |
| California | #960 | 23 | 1 in 7,837 |
| Illinois | #1,038 | 7 | 1 in 7,171 |
| Texas | #1,084 | 20 | 1 in 8,940 |
| Florida | #1,268 | 9 | 1 in 10,626 |
| Ohio | #1,291 | 5 | 1 in 10,538 |
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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 Sultan
- 49 spots since 2024 (#1,290 → #1,241)
- 182 spots since 2020 (#1,423 → #1,241)
- 795 spots since 2015 (#2,036 → #1,241)
- Debuted 1966
- Peaked 2025 at #1,241 (161 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,609 boys born in 2025 were named Sultan (0.01%)
- 34.1% of all boys named Sultan (816) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 9 | #2,784 (1966) | #2,784 |
| 1970s | 158 | #1,781 (1976) | #2,646 |
| 1980s | 166 | #2,427 (1985) | #2,958 |
| 1990s | 238 | #2,599 (1998) | #3,008 |
| 2000s | 293 | #2,429 (2001) | #3,434 |
| 2010s | 716 | #1,553 (2018) | #2,126 |
| 2020s | 816 | #1,241 (2025) | #1,377 |
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.
Sultan in 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 11,335 of them was named Sultan, which outranked 91.0% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,286Graysen153
- #1,286Karsyn153
- #1,286Will153
- #1,290Sultan152
- #1,290Booker152
- #1,290Bronx152
- #1,290Terrance152
- #1,295Amarion151
- #1,295Arman151
- #1,295Dovid151
Tied with 4 names at #1,290; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.