Suleimani

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country

Suleimani is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 24th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye1 in 374as Süleyman(measured from records)
  • TMTurkmenistan≈1 in 610as Şuleyman
  • CYCyprus≈1 in 1.2Kas Süleyman

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Suleimani itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Türkiye (measured from records)

219,082 named Süleyman, 2025

#549 (measured from records)

of 15M given names, spellings grouped

5 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
136 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 374 (inferred from the name graph)

Türkiye, as Süleyman

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
SüleymanLatin(measured from records)
СулейманCyrillic(measured from records)
สุไลมานThai(measured from records)
სულეიმანიGeorgian(measured from records)
সলেমানBengali(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Süleyman in TR Türkiye, SY Syria, CY Cyprus, Сулейман in RU Russia, AZ Azerbaijan and Şuleyman in TM Turkmenistan.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Suleimani 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.

Where Suleimani is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#24219,082as Süleyman1 in 374219KSüleyman118
RU Russia#459≈11,000 est.≈1 in 13Kregister #181Сулейман134
TM Turkmenistan#82≈9,100 est.≈1 in 610register #16Şuleyman15
AZ Azerbaijan—≈8,400 est.≈1 in 1.2K657Сулейман38
SY Syria#161≈7,500 est.≈1 in 2.6K—Süleyman18
AL Albania—1,550as Sulejman1 in 2K1.6K——
CY Cyprus#41≈1,100 est.≈1 in 1.2K—Süleyman18

219,082 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; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Suleimani is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kazakhstan, Russia, Türkiye, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Сулеймани, Sulejmani, Suleymani, Сулаймани, Сулеймані

27 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
19201940196019802000Haj Qorban Soleimani, b. 1920Parvin Soleimani, b. 1922Qasem Soleimani, b. 1957Mohsen Soleimani, b. 1959Belgheis Soleimani, b. 1963Gholamreza Soleimani, b. 1964Nader Soleimani, b. 1967Hossein Soleimani, b. 1984Meysam Soleimani, b. 1986Zeinab Soleimani, b. 1991

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).

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Suleimani under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Suleimani have the most bearers?
In Türkiye, the national register counted about 219 thousand people named Süleyman, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Suleimani most common?
No national register we hold counts the spelling Suleimani itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Türkiye's: the national register counts about 1 in 374 people named Süleyman.
How common is the name Suleimani?
In Türkiye, the national register counted 219,082 people named Süleyman in 2025, about 1 in 374 residents.
How common is Suleimani compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Suleimani is the 24th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.

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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, “Suleimani” — the 24th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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