# Suhail (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/suhail/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Arabic |
| Meaning | “glorious” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 409 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 384 / 25 (6% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 327, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Arabic سُهَيْل (suhayl, “glorious”).

## What it means

Suhail is grouped under famous.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 6 | 9,099 |
| 1978 | 5 | 11,245 |
| 1979 | 7 | 8,895 |
| 1980 | 7 | 8,960 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 9 | 8,671 |
| 2012 | 7 | 10,612 |
| 2013 | 9 | 8,675 |
| 2014 | 11 | 7,488 |
| 2015 | 13 | 6,631 |
| 2016 | 19 | 5,104 |
| 2017 | 15 | 6,032 |
| 2018 | 6 | 11,952 |
| 2019 | 12 | 7,117 |
| 2020 | 9 | 8,641 |
| 2021 | 8 | 9,580 |
| 2022 | 14 | 6,433 |
| 2023 | 12 | 7,244 |
| 2024 | 22 | 4,682 |
| 2025 | 10 | 8,164 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 13 | 1,596 |
| 2009 | 12 | 1,749 |
| 2010 | 15 | 1,551 |
| 2011 | 13 | 1,688 |
| 2012 | 7 | 2,721 |
| 2013 | 8 | 2,403 |
| 2014 | 6 | 2,964 |
| 2015 | 8 | 2,483 |
| 2016 | 5 | 3,478 |
| 2017 | 4 | 3,996 |
| 2019 | 5 | 3,411 |
| 2021 | 4 | 3,990 |
| 2022 | 3 | 4,789 |
| 2024 | 8 | 2,671 |
| 2025 | 5 | 3,684 |

## People named Suhail

- Suhail Shaheen, Afghan Taliban politician

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.