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sultan Name Meaning and History

  1. Muslim: from a personal name based on Arabic sul?tan ‘ruler’. This was the title of rulers in many parts of the Muslim world, including the monarch of the Ottoman Empire.
  2. English: see Soden.
  3. Spanish (Sultán), Polish (Sultan): nickname for someone who behaved in an outlandish or autocratic manner, from Arabic sul?tan ‘sultan’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of sultan Families in the US in 1920
Number of sultan families
 18-34
 7-17
 1-6
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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