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Sohail

#6,398 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Suhail

Sohail has been given to 478 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #6,398 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Sohail, 2025

1 in 237,000

Sohail over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sohail: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Suhail

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sohail means

Sohail is a alternate transcription of Suhail.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Sohail → Suhail. The family’s meaning is “glorious”, recorded in English with the source elements suhayl.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Suhail.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 478 boys were recorded with the name Sohail between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 19 in 2017; its best national rank was #4,127 in 1988.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,423 in 2020 to #6,398 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,463 in 2015 to #6,398 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Sohail?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 122,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,398
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sohail sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sohail. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sohails were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sohail was born before 2004 — so the typical Sohail is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
24.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
58.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
478
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Choose a decade

2000s — 24.5% of all recorded uses (117).

Is Sohail rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+22
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,025
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,065
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
73.7%
Peak was 2017 (19)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,127
1988

Spellings of Sohail

Sohail is not the most common spelling — Sahil is, with 28.5% against Sohail's 4.3%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Sohail is used

Across 1910–2025, Sohail was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 990,199 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Sohail has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sohail around the world

Where Sohail ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1977–1999
    #359
    in 1999
  • Ireland
    2024–2024
    #785
    in 2024
  • France
    1987–2025
    #2,177
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1994–2019
    #1,925
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    2008–2008
    #726
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Sohail by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,398
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,025
Best rank ever
#4,127
1988
Peak year
2017
19 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
478
Count in 2025
14

Names similar to Sohail

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

SohaibSohumSohanSuhailSohamSohrabMihailMikailJamailSohilIsmailMichailAbigailKentrailMakailTyrailRohailDailIshmailJasailMikhailVailKailTrail

Sibling names for Sohail

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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