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Sushil

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Sushil has been given to 25 babies in the U.S. since 1969. 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 1969, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Sushil, 2002

1 in 747,000

Sushil over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sushil: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Sanskrit

What Sushil means

Sushil is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Sushil is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 25 boys were recorded with the name Sushil between 1969 and 2002. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1969; its best national rank was #4,946 in 1969.

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 Sushil?

Sushil had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2002, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2002
1 in 747,000
5 of 3,737,275 births
Among boys only
1 in 388,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2002
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
518,097 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sushil 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 2002 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 518,097 children born in 2002 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sushil. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sushils were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sushil was born before 1983 — so the typical Sushil is around 42 today.

Median birth year
1983
About 42 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
20.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
60.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
25
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 20.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Sushil 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
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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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1969 (5)
Years since peak
56
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#4,946
1969

Spellings of Sushil

Sushil is not the most common spelling — Sahil is, with 60.5% against Sushil's 0.48%.

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.

Sushil around the world

Where Sushil 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.

  • South Australia
    1985–1985
    #449
    in 1985

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Sushil by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,946
1969
Peak year
1969
5 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2002
All-time count
25
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sushil

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

SusanaNahilSusanoMithilNishilSushantRikhilSushanthRishilDarshilShahilRaahilSusumuSusieRohilMahilAhilKahilSohilNickhilKrishilZahilTheophilRahil

Sibling names for Sushil

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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