# Sultan (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/sultan/  
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 | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 2,396 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 2,396 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,200, 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, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 43 | 2,788 |
| 2012 | 55 | 2,353 |
| 2013 | 49 | 2,520 |
| 2014 | 58 | 2,294 |
| 2015 | 70 | 2,049 |
| 2016 | 98 | 1,637 |
| 2017 | 92 | 1,715 |
| 2018 | 108 | 1,564 |
| 2019 | 102 | 1,621 |
| 2020 | 121 | 1,435 |
| 2021 | 109 | 1,590 |
| 2022 | 145 | 1,307 |
| 2023 | 128 | 1,429 |
| 2024 | 152 | 1,292 |
| 2025 | 161 | 1,243 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 3 | 3,824 |
| 1998 | 3 | 3,848 |
| 1999 | 3 | 3,900 |
| 2000 | 5 | 2,746 |
| 2001 | 8 | 2,023 |
| 2003 | 6 | 2,727 |
| 2004 | 3 | 4,598 |
| 2005 | 4 | 3,970 |
| 2006 | 5 | 3,548 |
| 2009 | 4 | 4,564 |
| 2010 | 5 | 4,012 |
| 2011 | 6 | 3,549 |
| 2013 | 5 | 4,050 |
| 2015 | 6 | 3,615 |
| 2017 | 4 | 4,763 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 19 | 1,303 |
| 2012 | 25 | 1,086 |
| 2013 | 24 | 1,086 |
| 2014 | 33 | 889 |
| 2015 | 36 | 856 |
| 2016 | 58 | 616 |
| 2017 | 47 | 730 |
| 2018 | 53 | 657 |
| 2019 | 51 | 674 |
| 2020 | 68 | 544 |
| 2021 | 61 | 610 |
| 2022 | 59 | 615 |
| 2023 | 75 | 519 |
| 2024 | 97 | 414 |
| 2025 | 117 | 360 |

## People named Sultan

- Sultan bin Abdulaziz, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Second deputy prime minister, and the minister of defense (1
- Amet-khan Sultan, Crimean Tatar WWII flying ace, test pilot, and twice Hero of the Soviet Union (1920-1971)
- Sultan Ali Keshtmand, Afghan politician (1935～2026)
- Sultan Haydar, Ethiopian-born Turkish athlete (born 1985)

## 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.