Sulaiman

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Sulaiman: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Sulaiman: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #364, reached in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
31times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#364highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1235
1997	#661
1998	#585
1999	#490
2000	#624
2001	#428
2002	#443
2003	#710
2004	#599
2005	#574
2006	#582
2007	#603
2008	#583
2009	#535
2010	#615
2011	#524
2012	#606
2013	#524
2014	#457
2015	#461
2016	#493
2017	#448
2018	#460
2019	#449
2020	#426
2021	#457
2022	#427
2023	#381
2024	#364

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #364 among boys in England and Wales, #785 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1235 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #364 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #364 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Sulaiman appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,851 births with the name.

Sulaiman across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Sulaiman's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#1235 (1996)	#364 (2024)	#364 (2024)	29 of 29	1,851 (1996–2024)	119 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#610 (2017)	#610 (2017)	#785 (2024)	2 of 8	7 (2017–2024)	4 (2017)

Sulaiman by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Sulaiman in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	107	4 of 10	27
2000s	463	10 of 10	46
2010s	776	10 of 10	78
2020sbusiest	505	5 of 10	101

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 101 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Sulaiman appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #364 in England and Wales in 2024.

Sulaiman's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#364	119	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#381	106	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#427	96	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#457	90	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#426	94	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#449	90	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#460	88	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#448	94	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#493	82	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#461	88	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#457	86	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#524	70	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#606	58	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#524	67	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#615	53	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#535	63	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#583	56	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#603	49	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#582	50	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#574	46	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#599	40	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#710	30	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#443	50	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#428	50	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#624	29	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#490	41	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#585	31	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#661	25	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1235	10	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#785	3	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#610	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #364, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 119 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2017, and 21 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Sulayman · #519, 30y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Arda · #363, 26y
Jersey · #363, 24y
Rosalyn · #363, 33y
Andreea · #362, 24y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Asim · #364, 29y
Ryanna · #364, 12y
Amy-Rose · #365, 23y
Anna-May · #363, 17y

Sulaiman was ranked #364 in England and Wales · Boys in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Sulaiman and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Sulaiman without appearing here.

Sulaiman moved ahead of

Shannon Compare
In 1996 they stood at #1235 and #1168 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #661 and #1761.
Graham Compare
In 2003 they stood at #710 and #695 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #599 and #1347.
Johannes Compare
In 1996 they stood at #1235 and #1168 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #661 and #1345.
Fionn Compare
In 1997 they stood at #661 and #600 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #585 and #1263.

Moved ahead of Sulaiman

Cooper Compare
In 2006 they stood at #582 and #677 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #603 and #509.
Hudson Compare
In 2006 they stood at #582 and #885 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #603 and #538.
Ollie Compare
In 2001 they stood at #428 and #482 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #443 and #379.
Magnus Compare
In 2014 they stood at #457 and #489 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #461 and #406.

Moved the opposite way to Sulaiman

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Sulaiman went from #1235 to #364 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Sulaiman went from #1235 to #364 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Sulaiman went from #1235 to #364 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Sulaiman went from #1235 to #364 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Sulaiman

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Sulaiman went from #1235 to #364 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Sulaiman went from #1235 to #364 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Sulaiman went from #1235 to #364 and Alfred from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Sulaiman went from #1235 to #364 and Archie from #192 to #10.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #364 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Sulaiman

Sulaiman at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Sulaiman across 2 official records

Sulaiman by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Sulaiman appears in

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Sulaiman at a glance

Sulaiman across 2 official records

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What the record shows

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