Soheila
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/səhajlə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Soheila is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country.
- IRIran≈1 in 95K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 353K
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 7.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 161 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,100 people, est.
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.
Sources 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 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | 1 | Soheila | 5 |
| US United States | — | 943 | 1 in 353K | 941 | Soheila | 161 |
| IR Iran | — | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 95K | — | Soheila | 50 |
| SE Sweden | — | 309 | 1 in 33K | 309 | Soheila | 22 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 382K | — | Soheila | 56 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈70 est. | ≈1 in 78K | 254 | Soheila | 11 |
| 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). 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 Jolodarzadehb. 1959IRIranian politician
- Soheila Azizib. 1971IRIranian actress
- Soheila Golestanib. 1980IRIranian actress
- Soheila Mansourianb. 1988IRIranian wushu athlete
- Soheila Zalandb. 2000AFAfghan singer
- Soheila FaalIRIranian librarian
- Soheila Moradi Bidhendiresearcher
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)
Attested in 27 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 941 | #12,965 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 309 | #3,849 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 266 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 257 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 254 | #3,993 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 251 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 235 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 225 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 222 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 219 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 219 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 211 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Soheila?
- A machine transcription gives /səhajlə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Soheila a male or female name?
- Soheila is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Soheila?
- In the etymology graph, Süheyla is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Soheila have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.1 thousand people named Soheila in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled soheila.
- 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?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
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” — the 679th most common given name in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.