Sulima
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/suɫimə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sulima is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 13K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.6M
- UAUkraine≈1 in 12Kas Сулима
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 Sulima 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.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 130 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,800 named Сулима, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Сулима in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, BY Belarus and Sulyma in US United States.
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 across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sulima 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | #683 | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Сулима | 37 |
| PL Poland | — | 2,930 | 1 in 13K | 1.5K | Sulima | 64 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 60K | #2,761 | Сулима | 130 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 199K | — | Sulima | 13 |
| US United States | — | 212 | 1 in 1.6M | 213 | Sulyma | 90 |
| BY Belarus | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Сулима | 14 |
| FI Finland | — | 44 | 1 in 127K | 44 | — | 1 |
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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
- Helena Sulimab. 1882PLPolish actress
- Jerzy Sulima-Kamińskib. 1928PLPolish writer
- George Sulimab. 1928USAmerican football player (1928-1987)
- Roch Sulimab. 1942PLPolish cultural studies scholar
- Anna Sulimab. 1969PLPolish sportsperson
- Kamil Sulimab. 1980PLPolish basketball player (1980-)
- Krzysztof Sulimab. 1990PLPolish basketball player (born 1990)
- Paweł SulimaPLPolish parasitologist
- Krystyna Sulima-ChlaszczakPLPolish economist
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 33 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.5K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.5K | #1,957 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.4K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.4K | #1,996 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 213 | #92,574 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 212 | #87,663 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 189 | #90,652 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 44 | #25,695 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Sulima?
- A machine transcription gives /suɫimə/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- In which country does Sulima have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.8 thousand people named Сулима in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Sulima most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sulima is densest in Poland — about 1 in 13 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sulima?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2,930 people named Sulima in 2026, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
- How common is Sulima compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Sulima is the 683rd most common surname of 1,177,784 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sulima?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sulimaThe 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, “Sulima” — the 683rd most common surname in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.