Suhail
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: The star Lambda Velorum
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/suheɪl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Suhail is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. In Oman it is the 29th most common given name.
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 2.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 7.4K
- PKPakistan≈1 in 11K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 177 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈20,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Oman, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Canopus; the second brightest star in the sky
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Suhail is read(measured from records)
Suhail is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Hindi51%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Suhail in Hindi.
- English13%
The star Lambda Velorum
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Urdu7.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Suhail in Urdu.
- Arabic7.8%
Canopus; the second brightest star in the sky
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
Canopus
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
- Spanish6.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Suhail in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Suhail 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | listed | Suhail | 72 |
| CN China | — | ≈9,800 est. | ≈1 in 142K | — | Suhail | 6 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #146 | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Suhail | 117 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #704 | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | listed | Suhail | 88 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Suhail | 20 |
| OM Oman | #29 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Suhail | 38 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 1,361 | 1 in 21K | 1.4K | — | — |
| KW Kuwait | #812 | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | — | Suhail | 36 |
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: asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Suhail is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
canopy; tent
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
In Italian, Suhail, the third brightest star in the constellation of Vela
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Suhail Salimb. 1938PSPalestinian writer
- Suhail Bahwanb. 1939OMOmani billionaire businessman
- Suhail al-Hindawib. 1948IQIraqi sculptor
- Suhail Shawqib. 1968IQIraqi Composer
- سهيل بن محمد المزروعيb. 1973AEnot in their usual nameEmirati businessman and politician
- Suhail ShaheenAFAfghan Taliban politician
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 56 sources across 33 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- Where does the name Suhail come from?
- Canopus; the second brightest star in the sky Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How common is the name Suhail?
- In Venezuela, the national register counted 1,361 people named Suhail, about 1 in 21 thousand residents.
- How common is Suhail compared with other names?
- In Oman, Suhail is the 29th most common given name of 4,945 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Suhail?
- A machine transcription gives /suheɪl/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Suhail mean?
- In English, The star Lambda Velorum
- Is Suhail a male or female name?
- Suhail is a male 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 Suhail?
- In the etymology graph, Sohail and Suhayl are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Suhail have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 20 thousand people named Suhail in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled suhail.
What do you want to know about Suhail?
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/suhailThe 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, “Suhail” — the 29th most common given name in Oman. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.