Sulayman
Masculine · “peaceful”
Sulayman is Solomon in Arabic — from shalom, peace — and the Qur'an has him understand the speech of birds and ants.
How old is the name Sulayman?
Sulayman first appears in US birth records in 1989 — 36 years ago. The typical Sulayman is a kid of about 9 — this name's wave is very recent. About 700 people named Sulayman are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Sulayman most popular?
Sulayman peaked in 2025, reaching #2284 nationally. Today it ranks #2284, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
From shalom to Sulayman
The story of Sulayman
The Qur'an gives Sulayman command of the wind, the jinn and the speech of animals; he overhears an ant warning her colony and smiles. The Hebrew Bible gives him the temple and the judgment of the two mothers. The name is standard across Muslim naming and is in current American use.
Meaning
peaceful
Through Sulayman, from the Hebrew Shlomo, from shalom, 'peace'. The Arabic salam is the same Semitic root. The Qur'an names him a prophet and a king. The Hebrew is transparent and the reading undisputed.
How the name formed
- shalom
- Shlomo
- Sulayman
Related forms: سليمان · Süleyman · Solomon
Pronouncing Sulayman
soo-lay-MAHN
Three syllables, stress on the third. Turkish Süleyman has a fronted first vowel.
Nicknames for Sulayman
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1989
- Most boys named
- 202561 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2284reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +74.3%61 in 2025, from 35
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Sulayman in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- سليمان in Arabic — transliteration
- Süleyman in Turkish — related form
- Solomon in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, New York, Illinois.
Sulaymans among us
people named Sulayman are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 28,001 born in 2025 was named Sulayman
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Sulayman
- #2284
- Sulayman on the 2025 chart
- #760
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Sulayman went to 61 boys in 2025, but Sulaiman is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 168, which makes it the 760th most-given boys’ name of the year — 1,524 places above the chart.
- Sulaiman107
- Sulayman61
About 1 boy in 10,167 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 28,001 for Sulayman itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Deleon test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Sulayman's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Deleon climbed just as high around 1980, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Deleon's path sketches the road Sulayman is walking now.
Sulayman sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Sulayman is headed
Sulayman should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Sulayman beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Sulayman in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That he overhears an ant and smiles is a first-rate Qur'anic image.
- The peace meaning is transparent and undisputed.
- Suleiman the Magnificent is a first-rate historical bearer.
- Several transliterations are in circulation.
- Solomon is what English speakers will recognize.
- Three syllables and an unfamiliar spelling will need dictating.
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Frequently asked
- How many Sulaymans are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Sulayman are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Sulayman?
- Sulayman is one of 2 recorded spellings. Sulaiman is the more common one — 107 births in 2025 against 61 for Sulayman.
- How popular is the name Sulayman in 2025?
- Sulayman ranks #2284 among US boy names in 2025, with 61 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Sulayman?
- About 1 in every 28,001 US boys born in 2025 was named Sulayman — 61 in all.
- Will my child share the name Sulayman with classmates?
- Sulayman will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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