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Boy's name · #314 in the US (2025) · Trending
92% boys · 8% girls — Sullivan is also given to girls: 74 in 2025, about 1 in 12 in recent years. Sullivan →
Sullivan is climbing: on the charts since 1884, it reached #314 in 2025 — its strongest showing yet, with about 1,100 boys given the name last year. Roughly 16,000 have carried it all-time.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 43 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#276 in England & Wales (2025) · #473 in New Zealand (2025) · #554 in Scotland (2025) · #3,017 in France (2025) · #203 in Canada (2024).
It is also an American family name — about 221,000 people carried it as a surname in the 2010 census.
Among 29 notable people named Sullivan:
Entertainers appear 2× more often than among typical names — e.g. Sullivan Stapleton, Australian actor (born 1977).
Similar names: Bowen · Shulem · Ronan · Callan · Kieran · Lachlan
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