Suleyman
A Hebrew name meaning "peace," carried through Turkish and Arabic as a form of Solomon. In Poland it stays rare: just over a hundred men hold it, so most Poles will never meet one.
Suleyman Pronunciation
Suleyman is pronounced soo-le-IH-mahn (/sulɛˈɨman/).
What Suleyman means
Where Suleyman comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Suleyman is the Arabic and Turkish shape of a Hebrew name. Behind it stands Shlomo, the name of King Solomon, built on the root shalom, peace. That root gives the name its meaning, which Polish renders as pokój and spokojny. The Hebrew origin sits under a Turkish and Arabic surface.
The best known bearer is Süleyman the Magnificent, the Ottoman sultan who ruled from 1520 to 1566. Under him the empire reached its widest span, and he codified Ottoman law so thoroughly that Turks still call him Kanuni, the Lawgiver. A ruler tied to war carried a name meaning peace.
In a Polish class register the name is rare, and it marks a family with roots outside the old Catholic calendar. No name-day marks it. It has no Polish diminutive, no softened home form. What it keeps instead is its meaning, the peace of Solomon spelled the Turkish way: Süleyman.
How many people are named Suleyman
1 in 209276 men in Poland is named Suleyman. 102 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3415 among male names.
Suleyman as a middle name
Suleyman is a first name for 102 men in Poland and a middle name for another 5, a 95/5 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 5037th, between Stelian (5) and Sulibor (5).
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#5035 Soma5
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#5036 Stelian5
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#5037 Suleyman5
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#5038 Sulibor5
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#5039 Sulimir5