Suleiman

At the 2020 census, 2,919 Americans bore the surname Suleiman — 10,489th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 102,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,919
Rank: 10,489th
How common: 1 in 102,000
Per 100,000: 0.98

Where the name comes from

Origin Arabic

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Suleiman described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 68.0%
Black, not Hispanic 21.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Suleiman

Michel Suleiman (born 1948)12th President of Lebanon
Omar Suleiman (1936–2012)Egyptian head of intelligence and vice president
Elia Suleiman (born 1960)Palestinian film director
Amna Suleiman (born 1988)Palestinian bicycle advocate
Mohamed Suleiman (born 1969)Qatari athletics competitor
Carmen Suleiman (born 1994)Egyptian actress and singer
Omar Suleiman (born 1986)American Islamic scholar and author

People named Suleiman with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Suleiman

Also a first name

Suleiman has been given to 1,048 American babies as a first name since 1983, peaking in 2023. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.