Sultan

Sultan is the 7,737th most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,122 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 72,500.

By the numbers

People: 4,122
Rank: 7,737th
How common: 1 in 72,500
Per 100,000: 1.4

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 42.2%
White, not Hispanic 39.6%
Black, not Hispanic 10.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Sultan

Nurbanu Sultan (1525–1583)Valide Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1574 to 1583
Amet-khan Sultan (1920–1971)Crimean Tatar WWII flying ace, test pilot, and twice Hero of the Soviet Union
Wafa Sultan (born 1958)American Syrian-born psychiatrist
Princess Dürrüşehvar Sultan (1914–2006)Ottoman Imperial and Royal; daughter of caliph Abdülmecid II
Ayşe Hümaşah Sultan (1547–1598)daughter of Mihrimah Sultan and Rüstem Pasha
Hatice Şükriye Sultan (1906–1972)Ottoman noble
Sabiha Sultan (1894–1971)Ottoman noble
Necla Sultan (1926–2006)Ottoman noble

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

Surnames like Sultan

Also a first name

Sultan has been given to 2,396 American babies as a first name since 1966, peaking in 2025. 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.