Given name & surname
Sulejman
Sulejman is a masculine given name. It is used in English, Polish, Albanian, and Serbo-Croatian.
Original TurkishSüleyman
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Sulejman comes from Turkish, and ultimately from Arabic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Sulejman’s family of names
Sulejman has a diminutive in SULO. In Polish usage, Sulejman shares an earlier linguistic root with Salomon. In Polish usage, Sulejman has a conventional equivalent in the English form Suleiman.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Sulejman has relatives in 12 languages. Lines run from its Turkish roots to each of them.
Turkishwhere Sulejman comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 12
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Sulejman
- Abu Dawud al-Sijistani9th-century Persian Hadith compiler817–888
- Sulejman TihićBosnian politician (1951-2014)
- Suleyman KerimovBusinessman, investor, oligarchborn 1966
- Süleyman ÇelebiOttoman prince1377–1411
- Al-TabaraniMuslim philosopher873–971
- Sulejman DelvinaPrime Minister of Albania (1884-1933)
- Sulejman UgljaninBosnian politicianborn 1953
- Sulejman DemollariAlbanian footballerborn 1964
- Sulejman HalilovićBosnian footballerborn 1955
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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