Sohail

given name · Urdu · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Sohail is a given name, most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is the 35th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Urdu and Hindi, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • BDBangladesh1 in 410◐
  • PKPakistan1 in 3.3K
  • AEUnited Arab Emirates1 in 4.7K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈2.6K ●

across 4 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
234 ●

184K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 43K ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

SohelLatin · Bangla●308K records
সোহেলBengali · Bangla●2K records
โซเฮลThai · Thai●51 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sohel in BD Bangladesh, MY Malaysia, TH Thailand and 2 more, Suhel in IN India, SY Syria, JO Jordan and 1 more and Shohel in SE Sweden.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Sohail is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BD Bangladesh#35692,03920K rec.—447Sohel119
IN India—257,86994K rec.—242Suhel128
PK Pakistan#9056,9759.7K rec.—listedSohail118
GB United Kingdom—7,7775.1K rec.—4Sohail114
MY Malaysia—3,5261.7K rec.——Sohel23
TH Thailand—3,0412.5K rec.—#1,016,356Sohel24
SA Saudi Arabia#4172,8571.2K rec.——Sohail79
US United States—1,78032K rec.1 in 187K1.8KSohail234
AE United Arab Emirates#2381,5812K rec.——Sohail86
SG Singapore#3871,4662.4K rec.——Sohel19
AU Australia—1,4412.1K rec.—3Sohail76
CA Canada—1,2691.6K rec.—1Sohail79

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Urdu67K34%
  • Hindi54K28%
  • English32K16%
  • Arabic6.6K3%
  • 4.5K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Urdu66,56334%
Hindi54,47628%
English31,93316%
Arabic6,6363%
4,5342%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Sohail is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name3.7K records spelled Sohail8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Belgium

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Sohaïl, Sohàil, Śohail, Šohail, Sòhàiľ

  • Indonesian given name2.4K records spelled Sohail3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Pakistan, India, United Kingdom, Indonesia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Śóhãíľ

  • Norwegian Bokmål given name1.2K records spelled Sohail7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Sôhäîl

  • Romanian given name438 records spelled Sohail3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Pakistan, India, United Kingdom, United States

    Also written Śőhàíľ, Sôhăîļ

42 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

0200400600800190019201940196019802000609 · 1995

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Sohail in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1899–2017
Yearrecords
18992
19001
19121
19171
19203
19221
19236
19241
19252
19271
19291
19323
19331
19341
19351
19363
19372
19391
19404
19415
19424
19433
19445
19454
19463
194710
19483
19493
195015
195113
195218
195313
195411
195521
195622
195732
195825
195946
196036
196138
196264
196345
196464
196561
196670
196796
196896
196998
1970124
1971109
1972163
1973151
1974156
1975129
1976153
1977146
1978188
1979189
1980125
1981201
1982234
1983207
1984232
1985263
1986252
1987289
1988292
1989342
1990391
1991456
1992528
1993576
1994599
1995609
1996518
1997576
1998485
199928
20011
200834
201022
20114
20127
20135
201474
201529
20171

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 87 years between 1899–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

190019502000Sohail Azimabadi, b. 1911Sohail Inayatullah, b. 1958Sohail A. Hassan, b. 1966Sohail Khan, b. 1970Sohail Quadri, b. 1975Sohail Shaukat Butt, b. 1983Sohail Bakkar, b. 2000Sohail Shamsudeen, b. 2000

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 57 sources across 28 countries.

Official registers attesting Sohail
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)—3.1K#1,462
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.8K#8,189
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.5K#18,311
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010921#26,492
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—469#4,778
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000403#49,057
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—393#2,515
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—349#1,536
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—339#10,957
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—339#10,923
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—326#3,362
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—242#15,528

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 341 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Sohail?
We estimate roughly 2.6 thousand people bear Sohail (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
In which country does Sohail have the most bearers?
Sohail is most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is most often spelled sohel.
How common is Sohail compared with other names?
In Bangladesh, Sohail is the 35th most common given name of 28,624 given names recorded there.
Is Sohail a male or female name?
Sohail is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sohail” — the 35th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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