Sully
A boys’ name of Old English origin, meaning south meadow; a form of Sullivan.
Babies a year
73
England and Wales, 2025
Rarity
Uncommon
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#529
73 babies · down from #509
Sully by the numbers
In 2025, 73 babies in England and Wales were named Sully. In the US, 33 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given far more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 42 babies in 2011, making it a 2010s name.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Sully. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Sollypeace; a diminutive of Solomon6 in England and Wales (2025)
- Sulleysouth meadow; a form of Lesley4 in England and Wales (2025)
- Sunnybright or cheerful like the sun69 in England and Wales (2025)
- Selbyfrom the willow farm; a surname used as given name7 in the US (2017)
- Srulymy prince; a form of Saul4 in England and Wales (2025)
- Sujayvictory; well-born6 in the US (2017)
Other names that mean a meadow or field
Like Sully, each of these has a meadow or field in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Rileyvaliant; rye clearing7,797 in the US (2017)
- Braydenbroad valley; a modern respelling of Braden5,153 in the US (2017)
- Bentleymeadow of bent grass3,945 in the US (2017)
- Haydenvalley with hay3,623 in the US (2017)
- Wesleywestern meadow3,607 in the US (2017)
- Ryleerye clearing; a respelling of Ryley2,971 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Sully
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