Sully
2025 SSA
2025 SSA
About Sully
A jaunty offshoot of Sullivan, Sully will be associated by kids with the beloved character in the Pixar animated film Monsters, Inc. Some notable real-life namesakes are French poet and essayist Sully Prudhomme, the heroic pilot "Sully" Sullenberger, and Sully Erna, lead vocalist of Godsmack.
Sully for girls#14725 US
A jaunty offshoot of Sullivan, Sully will be associated by kids with the beloved character in the Pixar animated film Monsters, Inc. Rare for a girl, but with a cool surnamey style and echoes of midcentury favorite Sally.
Pronounced SUL-ee.
As of October 2026, Sully ranked #3371 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #2843 in 2011.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · boys | Births · boys | US rank · girls | Births · girls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #4,244 | 24 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | #4,750 | 21 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #4,725 | 21 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | #4,201 | 25 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | #4,783 | 21 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | #4,679 | 21 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | #3,637 | 31 | — | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | #4,098 | 27 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | #3,577 | 32 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | #3,371 | 35 | — | 0 |
World rankings
Sully for boys
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Famous Sullys
- René François Armand "Sully" PrudhommeBoy
French poet and essayist, first to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Chesley Burnett "Sully" Sullenberger IIIBoy
American "Miracle on the Hudson" pilot
- Salvatore Paul "Sully" ErnaBoy
American lead singer of Godsmack
- Sully BoyarBoy
American actor
- Sully Osvaldo BonnellyBoy
Dominican fashion designer
- Zulena "Zully" MorenoGirl
Argentine actress
- Sullivan Violet "Sully" Resich (b. 2012)Girl
daughter of reality TV personality Meghan Conroy Resich of "There Goes the Motherhood"
Sully in pop culture
- James P. "Sulley" SullivanBoy
character in Pixar's "Monsters, Inc." movies
- SullyBoy
construction worker Muppet on TV's "Sesame Street," with partner Biff
- Byron SullyBoy
character on TV's "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman"
- "SullyBoy
" 2016 film about pilot Sully Sullenberger
- SullyGirl
daughter in 2015 TV movie "A Deadly Adoption"