Given name & surname · also Spanish
Soliman
Soliman is a surname from Spanish, ultimately from Arabic. It is used in English and Tagalog.
Original SpanishSolimán
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Soliman comes from Spanish, and ultimately from Arabic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2000. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Soliman through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 75
- 75 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2015
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 9
- #8,822 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 9 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 8,822 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 236 as a first name in 2020; 5,283 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Soliman’s family of names
In Filipino usage, Soliman as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with Solomon. In French usage, Soliman has a conventional equivalent in the Turkish form Süleyman. In English usage, Soliman as a surname has a related form in Suleiman.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Soliman has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Arabic roots to each of them.
5 related names in 4 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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