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Suhail

#8,160 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Glorious

Suhail has been given to 409 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #8,160 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 22 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% boys, 6% girls all-time.

Babies named Suhail, 2025

1 in 332,000

Suhail over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Suhail over time

In 2025, Suhail went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19752025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Suhail: meaning, origin, and history

Glorious

Arabic

What Suhail means

Suhail means “glorious”, associated with suhayl.

Origin, language, and formation

Suhail is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Suhail comes through Arabic سُهَيْل.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 384 boys were recorded with the name Suhail between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 22 in 2024; its best national rank was #4,678 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,636 in 2020 to #8,160 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,626 in 2015 to #8,160 in 2025.

In the United States, 25 girls were recorded with the name Suhail between 1976 and 1980. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1979; its best national rank was #8,893 in 1979.

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 Suhail?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,160
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Suhail 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Suhail. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Suhails were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Suhail was born before 2010 — so the typical Suhail is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
30.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
71.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
384
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2010s — 30.7% of all recorded uses (118).

Is Suhail 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
−3,482
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+476
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,534
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.77×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
45.5%
Peak was 2024 (22)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,678
2024

Spellings of Suhail

Suhail is not the most common spelling — Sahil is, with 33.4% against Suhail's 4.1%.

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 Suhail is used

Across 1910–2025, Suhail was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,563,045 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 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. Suhail has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Suhail around the world

Where Suhail 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
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • France
    2013–2025
    #4,337
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2011
    #2,664
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Suhail by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,160
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 476
Best rank ever
#4,678
2024
Peak year
2024
22 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
384
Count in 2025
10

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,893
1979
Peak year
1979
7 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
1980
All-time count
25
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Suhail

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

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