Soleimani
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/səliɪmɑni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Soleimani is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Persian سلیمانی (soleymâni).
- IRIran≈1 in 84K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 642K
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 11K
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.
- Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 171 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,300 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Borrowed from Persian سلیمانی (soleymâni).
Sources 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Soleimani 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF Afghanistan | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Soleimani | 3 |
| IR Iran | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 84K | — | Soleimani | 62 |
| US United States | 518 | 1 in 642K | 646 | Soleimani | 171 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 546K | — | Soleimani | 18 |
| CA Canada | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 280K | — | Soleimani | 47 |
| SE Sweden | 67 | 1 in 152K | 67 | Soleimani | 12 |
| FI Finland | 53 | 1 in 105K | 53 | — | 5 |
| NO Norway | 30 | 1 in 182K | 30 | — | 3 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Haj Qorban Soleimanib. 1920IRIranian musician
- Parvin Soleimanib. 1922IRIranian actress (1922–2009)
- Qasem Soleimanib. 1957IRIranian military officer (1957–2020)
- Mohsen Soleimanib. 1959IRIranian writer, academic and diplomat
- Belgheis Soleimanib. 1963IRIranian novelist (born 1963)
- Gholamreza Soleimanib. 1964IRIranian military commander (1964-2026)
- Nader Soleimanib. 1967IRIranian actor
- Hossein Soleimanib. 1984IRIranian actor (1984-)
- Meysam Soleimanib. 1986IRIranian association football player
- Zeinab Soleimanib. 1991IRdaughter of Qassem Soleimani
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 646 | #37,126 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 518 | #41,959 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 368 | #52,827 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 67 | #9,900 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 53 | #21,729 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 30 | #34,803 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Soleimani mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Persian سلیمانی (soleymâni). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Soleimani?
- A machine transcription gives /səliɪmɑni/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Soleimani have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.3 thousand people named Soleimani in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled soleimani.
- How common is the name Soleimani?
- In the United States, the national register counted 518 people named Soleimani in 2010, about 1 in 642 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/soleimaniThe 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, “Soleimani”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.