Given name & surname
Suhail
“a gentle man; bright star”
Suhail is used as a given name and a surname. One Arabic interpretation is “a gentle man; bright star.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Arabic interpretation is “a gentle man; bright star.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Arabic.
How it developed
From Arabic سُهَيْل (“glorious”); its root is Arabic س ه ل.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1975. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Suhail through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 409
- 384 boys · 25 girls
- Most popular year
- 2024
- 22 babies
- 2025
- 10
- #8,164 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +8%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 10 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 8,164 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 8.2% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,262 as a first name in 2020; 495 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Suhail’s family of names
Suhail has a feminine form in Suhaila. Suhail has a related form in Suhael. Suhail has a related form in Suhaele.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 7
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Suhail
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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