Sully
About 1,050 American babies have been named Sully since 1980, most of them around 2011. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 3,314th. About 1,000 Sullys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 15.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Sully boys named Sully
Girls and boys called Sully
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Sully crossed from girls to boys in 2006, and has stayed there for 18 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 100% boys, and in 2025 it was 85%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 20 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,050
- Estimated living today
- 1,000
- Median age today
- 15
- Peak year
- 2011
- Best rank
- 2,798th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,314th
- First recorded
- 1980
- Girls / boys
- 370 / 680
How old the living Sullys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,050 babies given the name since 1980, about 1,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 590 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2010 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Sullys
- Sully Prudhomme (1839–1907)French poet, Nobel prize for literature winner 1901
- Sully Erna (born 1968)American rock musician
People named Sully with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Sully is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Sully is most concentrated in New York (4.1×), California (3.9×), Illinois (3.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2011
The most popular boys’ names the year Sully peaked:
Sully elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Sully | 2,355 | 322nd |
| England and Wales boys | Sully | 334 | 509th |
| France girls | Sully | 15 | 6,509th |
| Scotland boys | Sully | 10 | 619th |
| Belgium boys | Sully | 5 | 1,022nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Sully: rank by region
In 1997, Sully was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Sully | 376 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Related names
Sully against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.