Suleiman
Masculine · “peaceful”
Suleiman is Solomon in Turkish and Arabic, and the sultan who carried it ruled forty-six years — the Ottomans called him the Lawgiver and Europe called him the Magnificent.
How old is the name Suleiman?
Suleiman first appears in US birth records in 1983 — 42 years ago. The typical Suleiman is a kid of about 6 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,000 people named Suleiman are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Suleiman most popular?
Suleiman peaked in 2023, reaching #1668 nationally. Today it ranks #1771, 103 places below that high. See the whole 2023 chart.
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Where it comes from
From shalom to Suleiman
The story of Suleiman
Süleyman I ruled from 1520 to 1566, doubled the empire, besieged Vienna, and reformed the whole legal code — Ottomans called him Kanuni, the Lawgiver. Sulayman is separately a prophet in the Quran who commands the jinn and understands birds. The name is used across the Muslim world and is in current American use.
Meaning
peaceful, of peace
From the Hebrew Shelomo, built on shalom, 'peace' — a word that means wholeness as much as the absence of war. Arabic took it as Sulayman and Turkish as Süleyman. The Hebrew is ordinary and the meaning undisputed across all three.
How the name formed
- shalom
- Shelomo
- Sulayman
- Suleiman
Related forms: Süleyman · سليمان · Solomon
Pronouncing Suleiman
soo-lay-MAHN
Three syllables, stress on the third. Turkish Süleyman has a front-rounded first vowel English does not have.
Nicknames for Suleiman
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
- 1983
- Most boys named
- 2023102 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1668reached in 2023
- Change vs 2024
- −1.1%91 in 2025, from 92
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.
Suleiman in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Süleyman in Turkish — related form
- سليمان in Arabic — transliteration
- Solomon in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, Texas, California.
Suleimans among us
people named Suleiman are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 18,770 born in 2025 was named Suleiman
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Suleiman
- #1771
- Suleiman on the 2025 chart
- #819
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Suleiman went to 91 boys in 2025, but Suleyman is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 109, which makes it the 819th most-given boys’ name of the year — 952 places above the chart.
- Suleiman91
- Suleyman18
About 1 boy in 15,670 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 18,770 for Suleiman 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 Rohn test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Suleiman's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Rohn climbed just as high around 1954, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Rohn's path sketches the road Suleiman is walking now.
Suleiman 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 Suleiman is headed
Suleiman looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 22% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium 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.
Suleiman beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Suleiman in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The peace meaning is transparent and undisputed in Hebrew and Arabic alike.
- One of the most consequential rulers of the sixteenth century carries it.
- It is used across Arabic, Turkish, Malay and Indonesian naming.
- Several transliterations are in use and it will need dictating.
- Three syllables make it long for everyday use.
- Solomon is the form English speakers will assume as an equivalent.
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Frequently asked
- How many Suleimans are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Suleiman are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Suleiman?
- Suleiman is the most-used spelling in US records — 91 of the 109 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Suleyman.
- How popular is the name Suleiman in 2025?
- Suleiman ranks #1771 among US boy names in 2025, with 91 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Suleiman?
- About 1 in every 18,770 US boys born in 2025 was named Suleiman — 91 in all.
- Will my child share the name Suleiman with classmates?
- Suleiman will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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