Suhaila
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- soo-HAY-la
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,776 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #8,360 for girls
Suhaila is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “the star Canopus”. In 2025 it ranked 3,776th for girls in the UK (6 babies) and 8,360th for girls in the US (12 babies).
What does Suhaila mean?
Arabic: feminine of Suhail
“the star Canopus”
Feminine of Suhail, the Arabic name for Canopus, the second-brightest star in the night sky.
Is Suhaila a girl's or a boy's name?
Suhaila is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the UK and 12 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Suhaila in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,776th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 46,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 12% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the UK were named Suhaila, making it the 3,776th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,110th. Its busiest year was 2008, with 8 girls.
Half of all the girls named Suhaila in the UK since 1996 were born between 2008 and 2020. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,704th in England and Wales.
Suhaila in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #3,776 |
| 2024 | 6 | #3,758 |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,929 |
| 2022 | 4 | #4,870 |
| 2021 | 3 | #5,824 |
| 2020 | 5 | #4,110 |
| 2019 | 7 | #3,340 |
| 2018 | 5 | #4,204 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2015 | 7 | #3,433 |
| 2014 | 4 | #4,888 |
| 2013 | 5 | #4,267 |
| 2012 | 4 | #5,058 |
| 2011 | 6 | #3,737 |
| 2010 | 6 | #3,715 |
| 2009 | 3 | #5,801 |
| 2008 | 8 | #2,895 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 5 | #3,356 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 3 | #4,284 |
| 2001 | 4 | #3,427 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 3 | #4,041 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 4 | #3,289 |
How popular is Suhaila in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,360th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 12 about 1 in 130,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 12 girls in the US were named Suhaila, making it the 8,360th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,321st. Its busiest year was 2022, with 21 girls. It first appears in the records in 1982.
2025 had fewer girls named Suhaila than any year since 2019.
Half of all the girls named Suhaila in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Suhaila in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,360 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,247 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,242 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,790 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,245 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,321 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,106 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,146 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,804 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,004 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,480 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,131 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,706 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,146 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,240 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,423 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,594 |
| 2007 | 7 | #13,918 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,684 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,378 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,065 |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,380 |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,139 |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,514 |
Names like Suhaila
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Abeeha, Hafsa, Safiya, Hiba, Nusaybah, Sumayyah, Rahma, Safaa, Amira, Aaliyah, Khadija
Names related to Suhaila
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza, Kairo
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Suhaila: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/suhaila, updated 20 October 2026.