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Suhaila

#8,805 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Suhail

Suhaila has been given to 277 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #8,805 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Suhaila, 2025

1 in 276,000

Suhaila over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Suhaila: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Suhail

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Suhaila means

Suhaila is a feminine form of Suhail.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Suhaila → 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, 277 girls were recorded with the name Suhaila between 1982 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 21 in 2022; its best national rank was #5,957 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,601 in 2020 to #8,805 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,379 in 2015 to #8,805 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 Suhaila?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 134,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,805
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Suhaila sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Suhaila. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Suhailas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Suhaila was born before 2016 — so the typical Suhaila is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
43.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
277
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2010s — 43.3% of all recorded uses (120).

Is Suhaila 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
−1,254
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,204
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−426
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.86×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
57.1%
Peak was 2022 (21)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,957
2022

Spellings of Suhaila

Suhaila is not the most common spelling — Sheila is, with 80.0% against Suhaila's 0.09%.

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 Suhaila is used

Across 1910–2025, Suhaila was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 592,337 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Suhaila has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Suhaila around the world

Where Suhaila 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
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2017–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1993–2006
    #782
    in 2006

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Suhaila by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,805
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,204
Best rank ever
#5,957
2022
Peak year
2022
21 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
277
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Suhaila

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

SuhaylaSuheylaSuhaylahKhamilaLudmilaDahlilaSuhailahSuheilaKhalilaSuhanaNithilaSuhaniSuhaviJalilaSuheilyJalailaGelilaJanilaDanilaKimimilaKhailaMakeilaDelailaMckaila

Sibling names for Suhaila

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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