Suleyman
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Suleyman is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 24th most common given name.
- TRTürkiye1 in 374(measured from records)
- TMTurkmenistan≈1 in 610
- CYCyprus≈1 in 1.2K
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 Suleyman 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)
- #549 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 136 (measured from records)
- 1 in 374 (inferred from the name graph)
219,082 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)
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.
Sources 1
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Suleyman 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 | #24 | 219,082 | 1 in 374 | 219K | Süleyman | 118 |
| RU Russia | #459 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | #181 | Сулейман | 134 |
| TM Turkmenistan | #82 | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 610 | #16 | Şuleyman | 15 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #121 | ≈8,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 657 | Сулейман | 38 |
| SY Syria | #161 | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Süleyman | 18 |
| AL Albania | — | 1,550as Sulejman | 1 in 2K | 1.6K | — | — |
| CY Cyprus | #41 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Süleyman | 18 |
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 42 sources across 28 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- In which country does Suleyman have the most bearers?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 219 thousand people named Suleyman, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled süleyman.
- Where is Suleyman most common?
- Suleyman is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 374 people carrying it.
- Is Suleyman a male or female name?
- Suleyman is a male 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.
- How common is the name Suleyman?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 219,082 people named Suleyman in 2025, about 1 in 374 residents.
- How common is Suleyman compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Suleyman is the 24th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Suleyman?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/suleymanThe 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, “Suleyman” — the 24th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.