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Sully
OriginFrench or English
Meaning"stain or from the south meadow"
GenderBoy
NB Rank#492
On Nameberry
About Sully
Variation of Sullivan
Popularity & trends
US popularity — history
US rank, lower is more popular · SSA data 2014–2025
Actual · SSA
20142025
18802025
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #4,244 | 24 | 12.5 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | #4,750 | 21 | 11.1 |
| 2017 | #4,725 | 21 | 11.3 |
| 2018 | #4,201 | 25 | 13.8 |
| 2019 | #4,783 | 21 | 11.7 |
| 2020 | #4,679 | 21 | 12.2 |
| 2021 | #3,637 | 31 | 17.7 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | #4,098 | 27 | 15.8 |
| 2024 | #3,577 | 32 | 18.6 |
| 2025 | #3,371 | 35 | 20.5 |
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- René François Armand "Sully" Prudhomme
French poet and essayist, first to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Chesley Burnett "Sully" Sullenberger III
American "Miracle on the Hudson" pilot
- Salvatore Paul "Sully" Erna
American lead singer of Godsmack
- Sully Boyar
American actor
- Sully Osvaldo Bonnelly
Dominican fashion designer
Sully in pop culture
- James P. "Sulley" Sullivan
character in Pixar's "Monsters, Inc." movies
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construction worker Muppet on TV's "Sesame Street," with partner Biff
- Byron Sully
character on TV's "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman"
- "Sully
" 2016 film about pilot Sully Sullenberger
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