Suheyla
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- soo-HAY-lah
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #13,203 for girls
Suheyla is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “the star Canopus”. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
What does Suheyla mean?
Arabic: Turkish form of Suhayla
“the star Canopus”
Feminine of Suhail, the Arabic name for Canopus, the second-brightest star in the night sky.
Is Suheyla a girl's or a boy's name?
Suheyla is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Suheyla in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2019, with 5 girls.
Suheyla in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 3 | #5,824 |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 5 | #4,214 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 4 | #4,967 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 3 | #6,003 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 4 | #4,931 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 4 | #4,494 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 4 | #4,150 |
How popular is Suheyla in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 13,203rd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 270,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 52% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Suheyla, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,321st. Its busiest year was 2020, with 18 girls. It first appears in the records in 2008.
2025 had fewer girls named Suheyla than any year since 2013.
Half of all the girls named Suheyla in the US since 1880 were born between 2015 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Suheyla in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,551 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,237 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,459 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,321 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,338 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,405 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,438 |
| 2016 | 9 | #10,855 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,476 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,124 |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,577 |
| 2012 | 6 | #14,956 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,236 |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,498 |
Names like Suheyla
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Abeeha, Hafsa, Safiya, Nusaybah, Rahma, Rumaysa, Sumayyah, Safaa, Hiba, Halima, Amira
Names related to Suheyla
Shyla, Shayla, Suhayla, Sheila, Suhaila, Shylah, Sheyla, Seylah
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
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, “Suheyla: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/suheyla, updated 20 October 2026.