Entry № 10088 · Irish origin

Sullivan Sullivan — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SUL-uh-vuhn /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Irish
Meaning
"Dark-eyed (Gilbert and Sullivan; modern unisex)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Irish)

A name that means "dark-eyed (gilbert and sullivan; modern unisex)".

Sullivan is from the Irish Ó Súileabháin — súil (eye) + dubh (dark) + án (diminutive) — descendant of the little dark-eyed one. Sullivan (1858-1918) — male; American heavyweight boxing champion.

Dark-eyed (Gilbert and Sullivan; modern unisex) — a Irish name.

The name in its native script.

Sullivan
Transliteration
Sullivan
Pronunciation
/ ˈsʌl.ɪ.vən /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sullivan stands.

Sullivan does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Sullivans before her.

Real people
Sir Arthur Sullivan
English Gilbert + Sullivan composer.
1842 – 1900
Anne Sullivan
Helen Keller's teacher.
1866 – 1936
Ed Sullivan
American TV host.
1901 – 1974
In fiction
Sullivan
Modern American naming.

Names connected to Sullivan.

The number behind Sullivan.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sullivan reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.