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Sullivan

Sullivan is a boy's name, a distinctive, less common pick, that is currently on the rise, with its biggest decade yet in the 2010s.

IrishIrish "Ó Súilleabháin"
EtymologyMeaning "dark-eyed one" or "hawk-eyed"
Births by decade
1900s
10
1910s
122
1920s
141
1930s
110
1940s
114
1950s
129
1960s
85
1970s
86
1980s
82
1990s
619
2000s
2,382
2010s
5,261
Peaked in the 2010s · 9,141 total U.S. births since 1900