Suhail

given name · Hindi · Latin script

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

Suhail is a given name, most frequently recorded in India. In Oman it is the 47th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Canopus; the second brightest star in the sky.

rarermore common
  • AEUnited Arab Emirates1 in 3.8K◐
  • SASaudi Arabia1 in 15K
  • INIndia1 in 38K

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

≈1.4K ●

across 8 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
175 ●

58K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 57K ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

SuhailLatin · Hindi●75K records
สูไฮThai · Thai●21 records

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●

Canopus; the second brightest star in the sky

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of Muslim Names

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Suhail is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India—84,81243K rec.—223Suhail158
AE United Arab Emirates#1881,9461.8K rec.——Suhail110
PK Pakistan—1,836501 rec.—listedSuhail57
SA Saudi Arabia#8411,464562 rec.—listedSuhail82
GB United Kingdom—1,313583 rec.——Suhail70
US United States—9735.3K rec.1 in 342K973Suhail175
IQ Iraq—9521K rec.——Suhail18
OM Oman#47629672 rec.——Suhail36
TR Türkiye—624722 rec.——Suhail13
SY Syria—511562 rec.——Suhail19
UA Ukraine—3202 rec.——Suhail2
ZA South Africa—211210 rec.——Suhail27

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

Languages●

  • Hindi75K52%
  • English17K12%
  • Spanish11K7%
  • Arabic10K7%
  • Urdu9.9K7%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi75,05852%
English16,99112%
Spanish10,7157%
Arabic10,1467%
Urdu9,9287%

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◐

Suhail is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name25K records spelled Suhail6 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Sühail

  • Spanish given name12K records spelled Suhail2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Venezuela, United States, Mexico, Peru

    Also written Sṷḩàïḷ

  • a separate given name8.3K records spelled Suhail3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan, Iraq

    Also written Suhaīl, Suhaïl

  • Indonesian given name5.3K records spelled Suhail4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Malaysia, Indonesia, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Sûhãîl, Súháïl

  • Pashto given name2.0K records spelled Suhail2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Afghanistan, Pakistan

    Also written Sühail

  • Portuguese given name822 records spelled Suhail3 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Śùháìľ, Suhaíl

  • French given name786 records spelled Suhail4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, India

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Suhaïl, Sùhail

36 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.

Other recorded senses●

Suhail is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, The star Lambda Velorum

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Arabic, Canopus

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

  • canopy; tent

    as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman

  • In Italian, Suhail, the third brightest star in the constellation of Vela

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

020040060019201940196019802000498 · 1993

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Suhail in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1916–2015
Yearrecords
19161
19233
19331
19351
19371
19383
19392
19403
19423
19444
19455
19468
19477
19484
19493
19508
19517
195221
19539
19548
195510
195618
195720
195817
195921
196019
196121
196241
196334
196444
196536
196664
196776
196878
196973
197077
197166
1972108
1973101
1974101
1975106
1976143
1977113
1978120
1979101
1980135
1981143
1982196
1983174
1984248
1985219
1986216
1987213
1988233
1989256
1990276
1991354
1992410
1993498
1994411
1995457
1996227
1997267
1998206
199915
200820
201010
20113
20124
20132
201431
201515

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 72 years between 1916–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1920194019601980Suhail Salim, b. 1938Suhail Bahwan, b. 1939Suhail al-Hindawi, b. 1948Suhail Shawqi, b. 1968سهيل بن محمد المزروعي, b. 1973

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 56 sources across 32 countries.

Official registers attesting Suhail
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—3.1K#791
VE Venezuelaasosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996)—1.4K#1,195
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020973#10,520
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)—591#4,640
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020495#46,403
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020289#10,520
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010268#72,568
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—223#16,470
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—178#5,679
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000160#103,706
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—125#13,228
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—111#6,799

Reference works 2

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 · 307 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Suhail?
We estimate roughly 1.4 thousand people bear Suhail (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Suhail have the most bearers?
Suhail is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled suhail.
How common is Suhail compared with other names?
In Oman, Suhail is the 47th most common given name of 5,236 given names recorded there.
Is Suhail a male or female name?
Suhail 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.
What does the name Suhail mean?
Recorded meaning: Canopus; the second brightest star in the sky
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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, “Suhail” — the 47th most common given name in Oman. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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