Sulay
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: INEC, 2024
/sulai/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Sulay is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- ECEcuador≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
- PAPanama≈1 in 16Kfew records
- VEVenezuela1 in 18K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 116 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,600 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ecuador, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sulay 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 1 | Sulay | 49 |
| VE Venezuela | #977 | 1,606 | 1 in 18K | 1.6K | Sulay | 17 |
| EC Ecuador | #834 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 6 | Sulay | 23 |
| IN India | — | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | — | Sulay | 15 |
| US United States | — | 353 | 1 in 942K | 312 | Sulay | 116 |
| PA Panama | #655 | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 1 | Sulay | 9 |
| DO Dominican Republic | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Sulay | 10 |
| HN Honduras | #519 | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Sulay | 13 |
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: asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); the co-datosgov-candidates register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024); Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election. 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Sulay is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Cebuano, to try; to attempt
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mba, to try
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Sulay TovarESSpanish researcher
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)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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Sulay?
- In Spanish /sulai/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Sulay a male or female name?
- Sulay is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Venezuela (asosab) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Sulay have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.6 thousand people named Sulay in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sulay.
- How common is the name Sulay?
- In Venezuela, the national register counted 1,606 people named Sulay, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
- How common is Sulay compared with other names?
- In Honduras, Sulay is the 519th most common given name of 23,588 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sulay?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sulayThe 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, “Sulay” — the 519th most common given name in Honduras. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.