Sohel
given name · Bangla · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sohel is a given name, most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is the 35th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Bangla and English, written in the Latin script.
- 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 ●
- 3 ●
- Sources
- 234 ●
- 1 in 43K ◐
across 4 countries
recorded for this name
184K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
3 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sohail in PK Pakistan, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 16 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.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #35 | 692,039 | 20K rec. | — | 447 | Sohel | 119 |
| IN India | — | 257,869 | 94K rec. | — | 242 | Suhel | 128 |
| PK Pakistan | #90 | 56,975 | 9.7K rec. | — | listed | Sohail | 118 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 7,777 | 5.1K rec. | — | 4 | Sohail | 114 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 3,526 | 1.7K rec. | — | — | Sohel | 23 |
| TH Thailand | — | 3,041 | 2.5K rec. | — | #1,016,356 | Sohel | 24 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #417 | 2,857 | 1.2K rec. | — | — | Sohail | 79 |
| US United States | — | 1,780 | 32K rec. | 1 in 187K | 1.8K | Sohail | 234 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #238 | 1,581 | 2K rec. | — | — | Sohail | 86 |
| SG Singapore | #387 | 1,466 | 2.4K rec. | — | — | Sohel | 19 |
| AU Australia | — | 1,441 | 2.1K rec. | — | 3 | Sohail | 76 |
| CA Canada | — | 1,269 | 1.6K rec. | — | 1 | Sohail | 79 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Bangla308K51%
- English254K42%
- Hindi26K4%
- Arabic3.6K1%
- 3.2K1%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Bangla | 307,566 | 51% |
| English | 254,101 | 42% |
| Hindi | 25,857 | 4% |
| Arabic | 3,557 | 1% |
| 3,219 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2002 | 10 |
| 2004 | 10 |
| 2005 | 10 |
| 2006 | 11 |
| 2007 | 12 |
| 2008 | 13 |
| 2009 | 15 |
| 2010 | 13 |
| 2011 | 15 |
| 2012 | 15 |
| 2013 | 15 |
| 2014 | 18 |
| 2015 | 19 |
| 2016 | 19 |
| 2017 | 19 |
| 2018 | 22 |
| 2019 | 31 |
| 2020 | 32 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 18 years between 2002–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Sohel Ranab. 1947BDBangladeshi actor
- Sohel Isawib. 1973ILIsraeli educator
- Sohel Islamb. 1977BDcricketer
- Sohel Hossainb. 1979BDcricketer
- Sohel Altan Golb. 1989DETurkish-German actor (born 1989)
- Sohel Ranab. 1995BDBangladeshi footballer
- Sohel RanaBDcricketer
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 30 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | India Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive) | — | 715 | #4,083 |
| BD Bangladesh | Bangladeshi name database containing surnames and first names categorized by gender and frequency. | 2023 | 447 | #20 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 241 | #33,571 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 158 | #20,876 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 68 | #9,974 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 53 | #13,131 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 52 | #26,933 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 44 | #3,663 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 39 | #3,679 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 37 | #16,550 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 32 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 31 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 · 124 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Sohel?
- We estimate roughly 2.6 thousand people bear Sohel (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
- In which country does Sohel have the most bearers?
- Sohel is most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is most often spelled sohel.
- How common is Sohel compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Sohel is the 35th most common given name of 28,624 given names recorded there.
- Is Sohel a male or female name?
- Sohel 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.
Query this name via API
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About this data
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, “Sohel” — the 35th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.