Sultan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from Slavic and German forms related to soldän 'mercenary'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/s̪uɫt̪an̪/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sultan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 30th most common given name.
- TRTürkiye1 in 429(measured from records)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 1.4K
- PKPakistan≈1 in 2.8K
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.
- Türkiye (measured from records)
- #886 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 125 (measured from records)
- 1 in 429 (inferred from the name graph)
191,066 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)
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)
from Slavic and German forms related to soldän 'mercenary'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sultan 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 | #30 | 191,066 | 1 in 429 | 191K | Sultan | 90 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈84,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Sultan | 54 |
| AF Afghanistan | #1000 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Sultan | 6 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Sultan | 10 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | Sultan | 11 |
| CY Cyprus | #50 | ≈900 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Sultan | 17 |
191,066 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. 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)
Sultan is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, ‘ruler, authority’; title used as a personal name.
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Turkish, A monarchic title for Sunni Muslim monarchs.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Turkish, 1. Padişah, hükümdar. 2. Hükümdar ailesinden olan kadınlara verilen ad. 3. Sevilen, beğenilen, baş tacı edilen.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In English, sovereign of Turkey
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Swahili, Swahili: 'ruler'.
as a nameAfrican Names
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)
- Sultan Mahmudb. 1350Khan of the Western Chagatai Khanate
- Sultan Agungb. 1593IDSultan of Mataram (1593-1645)
- Sultan Bahub. 1630PKPunjabi Sufi mystic, poet and scholar (1630–1691)
- Sultan bin Ahmad Al Busaidib. 1800OMSultan of Oman
- Amet-khan Sultanb. 1920UACrimean Tatar WWII flying ace, test pilot, and twice Hero of the Soviet Union (1920-1971)
- Sultan bin Abdulazizb. 1926SACrown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Second deputy prime minister, and the minister of defense (1928-2011)
- Sultan Ali Keshtmandb. 1935AFAfghan politician (1935～2026)
- Sultan bin Salman Al Saudb. 1956SASaudi Arabian astronaut and politician
- Sultan Kösenb. 1982TRtallest living human
- Sultan Al-Brakeb. 1996QAQatari association football player
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 94 sources across 47 countries.
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
- 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
- What does the name Sultan mean, and where does it come from?
- from Slavic and German forms related to soldän 'mercenary' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Sultan?
- A machine transcription gives /s̪uɫt̪an̪/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- Is Sultan a male or female name?
- Sultan is a female 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.
- In which country does Sultan have the most bearers?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 191 thousand people named Sultan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sultan.
- Where is Sultan most common?
- Sultan is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 429 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Sultan?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 191,066 people named Sultan in 2025, about 1 in 429 residents.
- How common is Sultan compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Sultan is the 30th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sultanThe 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, “Sultan” — the 30th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.