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Boy's name · #1597 in the US (2025) · 2020s wave
Sulaiman is near its high-water mark: it reached #1500 in 2023 and still ranked #1597 in 2025. About 1,900 boys have carried it since 1972.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 8 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#418 in England & Wales (2025) · #453 in Italy (2024) · #555 in Canada (2025) · #739 in Sweden (2025) · #762 in Scotland (2025) · #1,199 in Belgium (2025) · #1,511 in Switzerland (2025) · #1,777 in Austria (2025) · #3,013 in France (2025) · #785 in Ireland (2024) · #9,124 in Ecuador (2015).
Among 130 notable people named Sulaiman:
Political leaders appear 2.84× more often than among typical names — e.g. Sulaiman Layeq, Afghan politician, ideologue, and poet (1930–2020).
Together with its spelling variant Sulayman (#2300), Sulaiman would rank around #1204 with about 170 births last year — the newborns split about 64/36 between Sulaiman and Sulayman.
Similar names: Sulayman · Malikai · Shulem · Uzziah · Zakaria · Natan
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