Soheila
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Soheila is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country.
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 2.6Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 33K
- DKDenmark1 in 85K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 161 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Soheila counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF Afghanistan | #679 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | 1 | Soheila | 5 |
| US United States | — | 943 | 1 in 353K | 941 | Soheila | 161 |
| IR Iran | — | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 138K | — | Soheila | 50 |
| SE Sweden | — | 309 | 1 in 33K | 309 | Soheila | 22 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 304K | — | Soheila | 56 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈97 est. | ≈1 in 57K | 254 | Soheila | 11 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 116K | 5 | Soheila | 13 |
| DK Denmark | — | 69 | 1 in 85K | 69 | — | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Soheyla Razavib. 1954IRnot in their usual nameIranian actress
- Soheila Azizib. 1971IRIranian actress
- Soheila Golestanib. 1980IRIranian actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)27 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Soheila?
- In the etymology graph, Süheyla is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Is Soheila a male or female name?
- Soheila is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Norway (SSB).
- Which countries have the most people named Soheila?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Soheila in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled soheila. After it come United States, Iran, Sweden and Germany; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Soheila?
- In the United States, the national register counted 943 people named Soheila in 2020, about 1 in 353 thousand residents.
- How common is Soheila compared with other names?
- In Afghanistan, Soheila is the 679th most common given name of 21,469 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Soheila?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/soheilaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Soheila” — ranked 364th in Afghanistan (Wikidata humans by citizenship). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.