Şultan
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Şultan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 30th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Ottoman Turkish سلطان (sultân), from Arabic سُلْطَان (sulṭān), from Aramaic שולטנא (šulṭānā, “strength, authority”) (compare Hebrew שִׁלְטוֹן (shiltón)).
- TRTürkiye1 in 429(measured from records)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 1.4K
- PKPakistan≈1 in 2.8K
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.
- Türkiye (measured from records)
- #886 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 125 (measured from records)
- 1 in 429 (inferred from the name graph)
191,066 people, 2025
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sultan in TR Türkiye, SY Syria, CY Cyprus and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Ottoman Turkishسلطانsultân(measured from records)
- Arabicسُلْطَانsulṭān(measured from records)
- Aramaicשולטנאšulṭānā“strength, authority”(measured from records)
From Ottoman Turkish سلطان (sultân), from Arabic سُلْطَان (sulṭān), from Aramaic שולטנא (šulṭānā, “strength, authority”) (compare Hebrew שִׁלְטוֹן (shiltón)).
Sources 10
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Şultan 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #30 | 191,066 | 1 in 429 | 191K | Sultan | 90 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈84,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Sultan | 54 |
| AF Afghanistan | #1000 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Sultan | 6 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Sultan | 10 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | Sultan | 11 |
| CY Cyprus | #50 | ≈900 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Sultan | 17 |
191,066 people counted by TÜİK NIP — most used given names, 2025. 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: TÜİK NIP — most used given names. 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Şultan mean, and where does it come from?
- From Ottoman Turkish سلطان (sultân), from Arabic سُلْطَان (sulṭān), from Aramaic שולטנא (šulṭānā, “strength, authority”) (compare Hebrew שִׁלְטוֹן (shiltón)). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman and 8 other sources.
- Is Şultan a male or female name?
- Şultan 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 Şultan have the most bearers?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 191 thousand people named Şultan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sultan.
- Where is Şultan most common?
- Şultan is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 429 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Şultan?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 191,066 people named Şultan in 2025, about 1 in 429 residents.
- How common is Şultan compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Şultan is the 30th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%9FultanThe 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, “Şultan” — the 30th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.