Sohail
Sohail was given to 14 boys in 2025, #6,398 among boys’ names; 478 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sohail by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sohail?
#6,398 among boys’ names, 2025
Sohail rose from #10,463 in 2015 to #6,398 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.7 to 8.2 per million.
19 babies in 2017, the peak
Sohail peaked in 2017, when 19 boys were given it, #5,077 among boys’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 74% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #6,398 | 8.2 |
| 2024 | 14 | #6,420 | 8.1 |
| 2023 | 12 | #7,230 | 7.0 |
| 2022 | 15 | #6,106 | 8.6 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,501 | 6.3 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,423 | 6.4 |
| 2019 | 7 | #10,643 | 3.9 |
| 2018 | 10 | #8,072 | 5.5 |
| 2017 | 19 | #5,077 | 10.3 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,669 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7 | #10,463 | 3.7 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,477 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,568 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 7 | #10,592 | 3.7 |
| 2011 | 12 | #6,935 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 7 | #10,587 | 3.6 |
| 2009 | 10 | #8,212 | 5.0 |
| 2008 | 11 | #7,622 | 5.4 |
| 2007 | 10 | #8,074 | 4.8 |
| 2006 | 9 | #8,621 | 4.4 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,566 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 12 | #6,454 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,652 | 5.6 |
| 2002 | 16 | #4,874 | 8.2 |
| 2001 | 12 | #5,954 | 6.2 |
| 2000 | 14 | #5,257 | 7.1 |
| 1999 | 14 | #4,988 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 14 | #4,831 | 7.3 |
| 1997 | 16 | #4,203 | 8.5 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,855 | 3.2 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,884 | 4.2 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,399 | 5.7 |
| 1993 | 13 | #4,652 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 6 | #8,297 | 3.0 |
| 1991 | 5 | #9,429 | 2.5 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,976 | 2.9 |
| 1989 | 8 | #6,140 | 4.0 |
| 1988 | 12 | #4,127 | 6.3 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,822 | 3.2 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,413 | 5.4 |
| 1984 | 9 | #4,501 | 5.0 |
| 1983 | 5 | #7,183 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,539 | 3.9 |
| 1981 | 6 | #6,143 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,452 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 7 | #5,287 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,371 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Sohail a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sohail has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sohail: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sohail, and how old are they?
An estimated 466 Americans named Sohail and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 10 and 32. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,783 people named Sohail (3 women and girls, 1,780 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 396 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 600 babies since 1880, Sohail is the most given (80% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Sohail
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Sohail and names like it
- Compare Sohail and SohilBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sSohail peaked in 2017.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sohail since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Sohail.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Sohail alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.