Suhailah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- soo-HAY-la
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #10,913 for girls
Suhailah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “the star Canopus”. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).
What does Suhailah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Suhaila; feminine of Suhail
“the star Canopus”
Feminine of Suhail, the Arabic name for Canopus, the second-brightest star in the night sky.
Meaning borrowed from Suhaila.
Is Suhailah a girl's or a boy's name?
Suhailah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Suhailah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,913th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 200,000 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, 8 girls in the US were named Suhailah, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2009, with 14 girls. It first appears in the records in 2000.
Half of all the girls named Suhailah in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
Suhailah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,913 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,188 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,586 |
| 2021 | 11 | #8,973 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,709 |
| 2016 | 7 | #12,871 |
| 2015 | 9 | #10,861 |
| 2014 | 8 | #11,925 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,031 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,477 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,339 |
| 2010 | 5 | #16,985 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,450 |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,498 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,601 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 5 | #15,777 |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,589 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,024 |
Names like Suhailah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah, Safa, Nusaybah, Hadassah, Samiyah, Zaniyah, Safiya, Sariyah, Zaliyah, Naziyah, Sumayyah, Zainab
Names related to Suhailah
Shaila, Suhayla, Suhaila, Suhaylah, Shaylah, Shaliyah, Shalia, Shaleah
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
Sources
Figures from 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, “Suhailah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/suhailah, updated 20 October 2026.