Sultan

What Sultan means

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

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #360 vs #1,241 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Sultan?

US: Rising: up from #2036 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #856 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 161 boys got the name (#1241 that year). First in the US records in 1966.

How common

• About 1 in 10,609 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,324 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 2,806 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 VA (0.38 per 1,000 boys), MD (0.31 per 1,000 boys), IL (0.3 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Sultan is #1241 in the US and #360 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 Sultan were boys.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Zoltan5 US · 4 E&W
• Sultaan0 US · 3 E&W

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 Sultan

Boys

• Felix#175“happy, lucky”^*
• Theodore#4Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #99 in 2015, #4 in 2025
• August#81“month of August”^*
• Rhett#188“advice”^*
• Otto#277“wealth, riches”^*
• Theo#82Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #405 in 2015, #82 in 2025

For a sister

• Cecilia#108possibly “blind”^*
• Remi#145Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #502 in 2015, #145 in 2025
• Margot#102Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #592 in 2015, #102 in 2025
• Noelle#202Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #202 vs #705 in 2025
• Esther#119“star”^*
• Maisie#233Diminutive of Margaret, meaning “pearl”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Sultan’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.