Soheil
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Soheil has been given to 6 babies in the U.S. since 1988. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1988, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Soheil, 1988
1 in 616,000
Soheil over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Soheil?
Soheil had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1988, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1988
- 1 in 616,000
- 6 of 3,694,212 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 319,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1988
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 426,773 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Soheil sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1988 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 426,773 children born in 1988 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Soheil. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Soheils were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Soheil was born before 1988 — so the typical Soheil is around 37 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 6
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (6).
Is Soheil 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1988 (6)
- Years since peak
- 37
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Soheil
Soheil is not the most common spelling — Sahil is, with 56.7% against Soheil's 0.11%.
Soheil around the world
Where Soheil 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.
- France1993–2025#2,642in 2025
- Canada2019–2019#2,943in 2019
- South Australia2001–2001#581in 2001
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Soheil by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Soheil
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Soheil
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.