Sulaima
given name · Latin script
Meaning: diminutive of Salma; beloved
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sulaima/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sulaima is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 216K(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 276K
- LYLibya≈1 in 280K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 20 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 216K (inferred from the name graph)
≈780 people, est.
Highest-authority source
United Arab Emirates, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
diminutive of Salma; beloved
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sulaima counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 70 | #21,009 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 68 | #9,598 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 35 | #43,485 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 29 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 28 | #96,655 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sulaima mean, and where does it come from?
- diminutive of Salma; beloved Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Sulaima?
- A machine transcription gives /sulaima/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Sulaima a male or female name?
- Sulaima is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Sulaima have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 776 people named Sulaima in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sulaima.
- How common is the name Sulaima?
- In Spain, the national register counted 70 people named Sulaima, about 1 in 715 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sulaima?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sulaimaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sulaima”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.