as a Last Name
- 215,574
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Sullivan
Meaning & Origins
Irish: reduced form of O’Sullivan, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Súileabháin ‘descendant of Súileabhán’, a personal name composed of the elements súil ‘eye’ + dubh ‘black’, ‘dark’ + the diminutive suffix -án.
| 83rd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 215,574
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Massachusetts
- has the most people named Sullivan per capita
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