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Sultan

Sultan: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“authority, ruler”
Origin
Arabic
Say it
SUL-tən · 2 syllables
Used for
Boys

From Arabic sulṭān, a title for a ruler or sovereign. It has long been used as both a title and a personal name in Muslim cultures.

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How popular is Sultan?

202445.0 per million US babies
1880192019602000
Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

Babies named Sultan in 2024151

2024 rank#1,296 boys

Peak year2024

Total US babies since 18802,234

Sultan is rising: use over the last five years is 2.9× what it was a decade earlier.

Names like Sultan

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

  • Amircommander, prince · Arabic
  • Muhammadpraised · Arabic
  • Zaynbeauty, grace · Arabic
  • Omarflourishing, long-lived · Arabic
  • Cairovictorious · Arabic
  • Ibrahimfather of multitudes · Arabic
  • Amiriprincely, of a commander · Arabic
  • Khalilfriend, beloved · Arabic

Sultan questions

What does the name Sultan mean?

Sultan means "authority, ruler". It comes from Arabic. From Arabic sulṭān, a title for a ruler or sovereign. It has long been used as both a title and a personal name in Muslim cultures.

Is Sultan a boy or girl name?

Sultan is mainly a boy's name in US records (100% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Sultan?

151 US babies were named Sultan in 2024. Its peak year was 2024.

How do you pronounce Sultan?

Sultan is usually pronounced SUL-tən.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.