# Sully (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/sully/  
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 and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ˈsʌli/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 1,050 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 680 / 370 (35% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 334, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 7 | 15,054 |
| 2010 | 11 | 10,384 |
| 2011 | 5 | 19,239 |
| 2013 | 6 | 16,316 |
| 2014 | 7 | 14,392 |
| 2015 | 7 | 14,335 |
| 2017 | 12 | 9,286 |
| 2018 | 9 | 11,330 |
| 2019 | 8 | 12,325 |
| 2020 | 9 | 10,986 |
| 2021 | 8 | 12,074 |
| 2022 | 9 | 11,144 |
| 2023 | 5 | 17,331 |
| 2024 | 5 | 17,394 |
| 2025 | 6 | 14,725 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 42 | 2,843 |
| 2012 | 34 | 3,290 |
| 2013 | 19 | 4,954 |
| 2014 | 24 | 4,244 |
| 2015 | 17 | 5,483 |
| 2016 | 21 | 4,752 |
| 2017 | 21 | 4,726 |
| 2018 | 25 | 4,203 |
| 2019 | 21 | 4,785 |
| 2020 | 21 | 4,679 |
| 2021 | 31 | 3,639 |
| 2022 | 17 | 5,605 |
| 2023 | 27 | 4,102 |
| 2024 | 32 | 3,594 |
| 2025 | 35 | 3,371 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 7 | 2,613 |
| 2012 | 3 | 4,805 |
| 2013 | 3 | 4,685 |
| 2014 | 6 | 2,964 |
| 2015 | 5 | 3,373 |
| 2016 | 5 | 3,478 |
| 2017 | 11 | 2,052 |
| 2018 | 7 | 2,693 |
| 2019 | 12 | 1,869 |
| 2020 | 15 | 1,548 |
| 2021 | 26 | 1,078 |
| 2022 | 30 | 993 |
| 2023 | 47 | 719 |
| 2024 | 77 | 509 |
| 2025 | 73 | 529 |

## People named Sully

- Sully Prudhomme, French poet, Nobel prize for literature winner 1901 (1839–1907)
- Sully Erna, American rock musician
- Sully Boyar, American actor (1924–2001)

## 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.