Suleyma
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- soo-LAY-mah
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #13,203 for girls
Suleyma is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “peaceful, safe”. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
What does Suleyma mean?
Arabic: Spanish spelling of Arabic Sulayma, a diminutive of Salma
“peaceful, safe”
Is Suleyma a girl's or a boy's name?
Suleyma is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Suleyma in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 13,203rd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 270,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Suleyma, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 1990, with 26 girls. It first appears in the records in 1989.
Half of all the girls named Suleyma in the US since 1880 were born between 1994 and 2008, the years shaded on the chart below.
Suleyma in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,164 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,141 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,245 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,677 |
| 2017 | 10 | #9,939 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,413 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 6 | #14,956 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,339 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,267 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,375 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,080 |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,485 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,234 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,123 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,617 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,202 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,102 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,095 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,527 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,216 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,119 |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,737 |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,734 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,252 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,233 |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,820 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,229 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,393 |
| 1990 | 26 | #3,904 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,356 |
Names like Suleyma
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Samira, Salma, Aaliyah, Safiya, Amira, Zahara, Aliya, Safia, Khadija, Zahira, Samiyah
Names related to Suleyma
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza, Kairo
Sources
Figures from 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, “Suleyma: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/suleyma, updated 20 October 2026.