Sufyaan
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- soof-YAAN
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,473 for boys
- US rank, 2025
- #10,690 for boys
Sufyaan is a boys' name of Arabic origin. In 2025 it ranked 1,473rd for boys in the UK (19 babies) and 10,690th for boys in the US (6 babies).
What does Sufyaan mean?
Arabic: spelling of Sufyan
A spelling of Sufyan, borne by Sufyan al-Thawri, an influential 8th-century Muslim scholar of Kufa.
Is Sufyaan a girl's or a boy's name?
Sufyaan is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 19 boys in the UK and 6 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Sufyaan in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #1,473among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 19about 1 in 16,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Steadydown 5% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 19 boys in the UK were named Sufyaan, making it the 1,473rd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,462nd. Its busiest year was 2002, with 39 boys.
Half of all the boys named Sufyaan in the UK since 1996 were born between 2003 and 2016. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier boys aren't counted.
In 2025, 68 boys in the UK were given Sufyaan or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #567, up from #1,473 for this spelling alone.
Among boys in 2025, it was 1,405th in England and Wales.
Sufyaan in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #1,473 |
| 2024 | 23 | #1,263 |
| 2023 | 15 | #1,715 |
| 2022 | 12 | #1,999 |
| 2021 | 15 | #1,686 |
| 2020 | 18 | #1,462 |
| 2019 | 25 | #1,159 |
| 2018 | 17 | #1,555 |
| 2017 | 30 | #1,068 |
| 2016 | 27 | #1,133 |
| 2015 | 22 | #1,268 |
| 2014 | 31 | #1,005 |
| 2013 | 23 | #1,199 |
| 2012 | 33 | #979 |
| 2011 | 25 | #1,125 |
| 2010 | 30 | #1,019 |
| 2009 | 37 | #854 |
| 2008 | 24 | #1,129 |
| 2007 | 32 | #896 |
| 2006 | 37 | #772 |
| 2005 | 33 | #812 |
| 2004 | 30 | #807 |
| 2003 | 24 | #900 |
| 2002 | 39 | #586 |
| 2001 | 26 | #748 |
| 2000 | 22 | #842 |
| 1999 | 33 | #611 |
| 1998 | 22 | #790 |
| 1997 | 19 | #864 |
| 1996 | 11 | #1,215 |
How popular is Sufyaan in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #10,690among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 6about 1 in 280,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 6 boys in the US were named Sufyaan, making it the 10,690th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,016th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 12 boys. It first appears in the records in 2000.
Half of all the boys named Sufyaan in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 80 boys in the US were given Sufyaan or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,688, up from #10,690 for this spelling alone.
Sufyaan in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #10,690 |
| 2024 | 7 | #9,888 |
| 2023 | 12 | #6,892 |
| 2022 | 5 | #12,322 |
| 2021 | 6 | #10,794 |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,016 |
| 2019 | 7 | #9,750 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,150 |
| 2017 | 5 | #12,241 |
| 2016 | 8 | #8,811 |
| 2015 | 9 | #8,035 |
| 2014 | 7 | #9,636 |
| 2013 | 9 | #8,113 |
| 2012 | 8 | #8,858 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 6 | #10,759 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,013 |
| 2007 | 5 | #12,361 |
| 2006 | 7 | #9,579 |
| 2005 | 6 | #10,144 |
| 2004 | 10 | #6,970 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 6 | #9,385 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,236 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,202 |
Names like Sufyaan
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Hamza Zayaan Muhammad Zayan Azaan Rayyan Ahmed Abdullah Musa Zayd Umar Saif
Other spellings of Sufyaan
Names related to Sufyaan
More Arabic names
Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Aaliyah Amir Amira Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra Kairo
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Sufyaan: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/sufyaan, updated 20 October 2026.