# Sullivan (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/sullivan/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | Sully |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 17,077 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 15,635 / 1,442 (8% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,524, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 29 | 4,902 |
| 2012 | 48 | 3,415 |
| 2013 | 53 | 3,118 |
| 2014 | 49 | 3,320 |
| 2015 | 70 | 2,584 |
| 2016 | 80 | 2,364 |
| 2017 | 91 | 2,126 |
| 2018 | 83 | 2,235 |
| 2019 | 74 | 2,424 |
| 2020 | 77 | 2,313 |
| 2021 | 81 | 2,284 |
| 2022 | 87 | 2,190 |
| 2023 | 85 | 2,226 |
| 2024 | 102 | 1,954 |
| 2025 | 74 | 2,432 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 488 | 523 |
| 2012 | 548 | 490 |
| 2013 | 540 | 504 |
| 2014 | 634 | 463 |
| 2015 | 667 | 455 |
| 2016 | 783 | 409 |
| 2017 | 797 | 401 |
| 2018 | 822 | 388 |
| 2019 | 778 | 401 |
| 2020 | 770 | 398 |
| 2021 | 876 | 372 |
| 2022 | 901 | 366 |
| 2023 | 918 | 358 |
| 2024 | 1,016 | 339 |
| 2025 | 1,083 | 314 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 43 | 732 |
| 2012 | 24 | 1,119 |
| 2013 | 44 | 730 |
| 2014 | 64 | 562 |
| 2015 | 65 | 571 |
| 2016 | 70 | 550 |
| 2017 | 80 | 498 |
| 2018 | 77 | 504 |
| 2019 | 79 | 493 |
| 2020 | 96 | 424 |
| 2021 | 103 | 412 |
| 2022 | 107 | 395 |
| 2023 | 126 | 338 |
| 2024 | 174 | 269 |
| 2025 | 165 | 274 |

## People named Sullivan

- Sullivan Stapleton, Australian actor (born 1977)
- John Sullivan Dwight, American music critic and Unitarian minister
- Jeremiah S. Black, American lawyer and politician (1810-1883)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.