Given name & surname
Sulo
“charm”
Sulo is a masculine given name. It is used in Finnish and Albanian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Sulo possibly goes back to a word meaning “charm.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
Sulo is a diminutive of SULEJMAN.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1911. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sulo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 220
- 220 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1918
- 30 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 1927. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 30 in 1918. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 139 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.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Sulo
- Sulo BärlundFinnish athlete (1910–1986)
- Sulo Nurmela(1908-1999) Finnish cross-country skier
- Sulo SalmiOlympic gymnast (1914–1984)
- Sulo Jääskeläinenski jumper (1890–1942)
- Sulo VaattovaaraSwedish footballerborn 1962
- Sulo SuorttanenFinnish politician (1921-2005)
- Sulo AittoniemiFinnish politician and police officer (1936-2016)
- Sulo WuolijokiFinnish politician1881–1957
Characters named Sulo: Sulo Kolkka (Finnish military personnel).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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