Suhailah — girls' name
126 babies named Suhailah in U.S. Social Security records since 2000, with the highest year being 2009. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
49% of everyone ever named Suhailah was born in this single decade.
14 babies were named Suhailah in 2009 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Suhailah
The Social Security Administration has registered 126 babies named Suhailah between 2000 and 2023, spanning 24 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Suhailah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2009, when 14 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Suhailah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 62 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Suhailah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Pennsylvania, which accounts for 24 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Suhailah in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Suhailah in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 126 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Suhailah at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Suhailah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–2000
- Peak year (2009)
- 14
- Annual births at peak — across 24 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
126 total births across 24 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2009 with 14 births in a single year.
Suhailah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 62 births that decade — 49% of Suhailah's all-time total
Suhailah decade highlights
- Peak decade 62 births
- Runner-up 42 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Suhailah's strongest decade
62 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 49% of all-time use.
Suhailah by state
Where Suhailah concentrates geographically — total births since 2000
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Pennsylvania | | 24 | 19.0% |
24 of 126 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Pennsylvania 19.0% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Pennsylvania accounts for 19.0% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2000–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.