Given name
Suhayl
“a gentle man; bright star”
Suhayl is a variant of Suhail. One Arabic interpretation is “a gentle man; bright star.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Suhayl is a variant of Suhail. One Arabic interpretation is “a gentle man; bright star.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Suhayl is a variant of Suhail. An origin associated with Suhail is Arabic.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2021. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Suhayl through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 17
- 17 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2021
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #11,813 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 11,813 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Suhayl’s family of names
Suhayl has a related form in Suhail. Suhayl has a related form in Suhail.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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