Sulaiman

What Sulaiman means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Sulaiman yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #418 vs #1,585 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Sulaiman?

US: Rising: up from #2068 in 2015. England & Wales: Steady: #461 in 2015, #418 now.

Biggest US share so far: 2023, when 119 boys got the name (#1498 that year). First in the US records in 1972.

How common

• About 1 in 15,963 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,833 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 6,547 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MN (0.29 per 1,000 boys), VA (0.24 per 1,000 boys), MI (0.22 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Sulaiman is #1585 in the US and #418 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Sulaiman were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Suleiman91 US · 65 E&W
• Sulayman61 US · 80 E&W
• Suleyman18 US · 23 E&W
• Suleman14 US · 12 E&W
• Suliman11 US · 12 E&W
• Sulaymaan0 US · 16 E&W
• Soliman9 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Sulaiman

Boys

• Muhammad#239“praised, commendable, laudable”^*
• Musa#469Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #64 vs #469 in 2025
• Idris#694Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #142 vs #694 in 2025
• Amir#105“commander, prince”^*
• Imran#969Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1970, with 8 babies
• Laith#893Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #254 vs #893 in 2025

For a sister

• Maryam#351Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #52 vs #351 in 2025
• Zahra#538Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1973, with 8 babies
• Amina#315“faithful, trustworthy”^*
• Zara#212“flower”^*
• Salem#435Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #1,425 in 2015, #435 in 2025
• Amira#132“princess”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Arabic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Sulaiman’s. Rank is US 2025.