Sulema
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births
- Peak · girls
- 1952 · 31 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,008since 1916
Sulema over time
Rank among girls' names. Sulema has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | #11,169 | 8 |
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 |
| 2021 | #8,978 | 11 |
| 2020 | — | |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 |
| 2017 | #11,615 | 8 |
| 2016 | #10,859 | 9 |
| 2015 | #7,613 | 15 |
| 2014 | #10,129 | 10 |
| 2013 | #14,582 | 6 |
| 2012 | #7,804 | 15 |
| 2011 | #8,196 | 14 |
| 2010 | #7,513 | 16 |
| 2009 | #8,058 | 15 |
| 2008 | #8,529 | 14 |
| 2007 | #7,733 | 16 |
| 2006 | #5,906 | 22 |
| 2005 | #5,113 | 25 |
| 2004 | #4,387 | 31 |
| 2003 | #4,220 | 31 |
| 2002 | #5,897 | 19 |
| 2001 | #3,417 | 39 |
| 2000 | #4,649 | 25 |
| 1999 | #3,374 | 37 |
| 1998 | #3,301 | 37 |
| 1997 | #3,547 | 32 |
| 1996 | #1,964 | 72 |
| 1995 | #4,099 | 25 |
| 1994 | #3,536 | 31 |
| 1993 | #3,221 | 35 |
| 1992 | #3,503 | 31 |
| 1991 | #3,936 | 26 |
| 1990 | #3,227 | 34 |
| 1989 | #4,848 | 18 |
| 1988 | #4,496 | 19 |
| 1987 | #5,312 | 14 |
| 1986 | #3,645 | 23 |
| 1985 | #3,730 | 22 |
| 1984 | #4,166 | 18 |
| 1983 | #3,242 | 25 |
| 1982 | #3,647 | 22 |
| 1981 | #3,066 | 28 |
| 1980 | #3,134 | 27 |
| 1979 | #3,333 | 24 |
| 1978 | #3,009 | 26 |
| 1977 | #3,612 | 20 |
| 1976 | #3,540 | 19 |
| 1975 | #3,514 | 19 |
| 1974 | #2,922 | 24 |
| 1973 | #2,349 | 32 |
| 1972 | #3,276 | 19 |
| 1971 | #3,266 | 20 |
| 1970 | #3,872 | 15 |
| 1969 | #2,917 | 21 |
| 1968 | #3,169 | 17 |
| 1967 | #2,117 | 31 |
| 1966 | #2,752 | 20 |
| 1965 | #3,402 | 14 |
| 1964 | #2,195 | 30 |
| 1963 | #3,176 | 16 |
| 1962 | #2,414 | 25 |
| 1961 | #2,608 | 22 |
| 1960 | #2,512 | 23 |
| 1959 | #2,289 | 25 |
| 1958 | #2,755 | 18 |
| 1957 | #2,121 | 27 |
| 1956 | #2,725 | 18 |
| 1955 | #2,725 | 17 |
| 1954 | #2,519 | 19 |
| 1953 | #2,301 | 21 |
| 1952 | #1,781 | 31 |
| 1951 | #2,694 | 15 |
| 1950 | #2,185 | 20 |
| 1949 | #1,967 | 24 |
| 1948 | #2,008 | 23 |
| 1947 | #2,045 | 23 |
| 1946 | #1,970 | 22 |
| 1945 | #2,149 | 16 |
| 1944 | #1,808 | 22 |
| 1943 | #2,151 | 17 |
| 1942 | #2,046 | 18 |
| 1941 | #1,810 | 20 |
| 1940 | #2,029 | 16 |
| 1939 | #2,125 | 15 |
| 1938 | #2,730 | 10 |
| 1937 | #2,196 | 14 |
| 1936 | #1,950 | 16 |
| 1935 | #2,305 | 13 |
| 1934 | #2,087 | 15 |
| 1933 | #3,109 | 8 |
| 1932 | #2,490 | 12 |
| 1931 | — | |
| 1930 | #3,345 | 8 |
| 1929 | #4,053 | 6 |
| 1928 | #4,725 | 5 |
| 1927 | #3,053 | 10 |
| 1926 | #3,269 | 9 |
| 1925 | #3,116 | 10 |
| 1924 | #4,002 | 7 |
| 1923 | #2,917 | 11 |
| 1922 | #4,445 | 6 |
| 1921 | #4,023 | 7 |
| 1920 | #3,598 | 8 |
| 1919 | #3,817 | 7 |
| 1918 | #4,291 | 6 |
| 1917 | — | |
| 1916 | #4,417 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Sulema! It came in at #4,417, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1916–1917, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Sulema is popular in 1952
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#454 · 1 in 4,098
Best ever in a state: #435 in Texas, 1941.
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| Texas | #454 | 26 | 1 in 4,098 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Sulema
- 5,595 spots since 2015 (#7,613 → #13,208)
- Debuted 1916
- Peaked 1952 at #1,781 (31 births)
- Births halved by 1965, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 24,347 girls born in 1996 were named Sulema (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 267,878 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,781 in 1952, was only 1 in 59,817 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 17.9% of all girls named Sulema (360) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 18 | #3,817 (1919) | #4,175 |
| 1920s | 79 | #2,917 (1923) | #3,720 |
| 1930s | 111 | #1,950 (1936) | #2,482 |
| 1940s | 201 | #1,808 (1944) | #1,998 |
| 1950s | 211 | #1,781 (1952) | #2,410 |
| 1960s | 219 | #2,117 (1967) | #2,726 |
| 1970s | 218 | #2,349 (1973) | #3,269 |
| 1980s | 216 | #3,066 (1981) | #3,929 |
| 1990s | 360 | #1,964 (1996) | #3,371 |
| 2000s | 237 | #3,417 (2001) | #5,791 |
| 2010s | 106 | #7,513 (2010) | #10,535 |
| 2020s | 32 | #8,978 (2021) | #11,400 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Sulema in 1952
Top girls' names in 1952
More about 1952
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1,854,335 girls got a published name in 1952; 1 in 59,817 of them was named Sulema, which outranked 72.1% of the 6,389 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,746Valinda32
- #1,746Wende32
- #1,746Yolonda32
- #1,781Sulema31
- #1,781Alba31
- #1,781Almeda31
- #1,781Alpha31
- #1,820Andree30
- #1,820Annita30
- #1,820Berlinda30
Tied with 38 names at #1,781; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.