Suha
Feminine · “Arabic al-suha”
Suha is a star, and a very faint one. Arab astronomers used it as an eye test: the small companion beside the middle star of the Great Bear's tail, visible only to good sight, and proverbially the thing you claim to see when you cannot.
How old is the name Suha?
Suha first appears in US birth records in 1973 — 52 years ago. The typical Suha alive today was born around 2003, making them about 22 years old. About 500 people named Suha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Suha most popular?
Suha peaked in 1998, reaching #4366 nationally. Today it ranks #10107, 5,741 places below that high. See the whole 1998 chart.
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Where it comes from
From al-suha to Suha
The story of Suha
Medieval Arabic astronomy named the sky, and Europe kept the names: Aldebaran the follower, Betelgeuse, Rigel the foot, Vega the swooping eagle, Altair the flyer, Deneb the tail, Fomalhaut the mouth of the fish. Suha is one of the small ones, the companion to Mizar in the handle of what English calls the Plough, and it had a specific social use. Because it sits at the limit of ordinary eyesight, seeing Suha was a test, and Arabic proverbs use it for someone claiming a perception they do not have: he points at Suha and they look at the moon. English astronomy calls the same star Alcor, from a different Arabic word, so the two names for one faint star both came from the same tradition by different routes.
Meaning
Arabic al-suha, the forgotten one
From Arabic suha, the name of the faint star beside Mizar in the tail of Ursa Major, known in English as Alcor. The word is connected to a root meaning to forget or to be overlooked. The American peak is 1998.
How the name formed
- al-suha
- Suha
Related forms: Suha · Suha
Pronouncing Suha
SOO-hah
Two syllables, stress on the first. The h is fully pronounced in Arabic and often lost in American speech, leaving SOO-uh.
Nicknames for Suha
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1973
- Most girls named
- 200827 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #4366reached in 1998
- Change vs 2023
- +50.0%9 in 2025, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Suha in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Suha in Arabic — same name
- Suha in Turkish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California.
Suhas among us
people named Suha are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 178,585 born in 2025 was named Suha
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Tannia test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Suha's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Tannia climbed just as high around 1976, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Tannia's path sketches the road Suha is walking now.
Suha sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Suha beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Suha in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Four letters and two syllables.
- It names a specific documented star with a long literary history.
- It is an ordinary current name across the Arabic-speaking world.
- American speakers tend to drop the h.
- It is unfamiliar to most American readers.
- It will be confused with Sarah, Sana and Sasha.
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Feminine · #10107 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Suhas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Suha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Suha in 2025?
- Suha ranks #10107 among US girl names in 2025, with 9 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Suha?
- About 1 in every 178,585 US girls born in 2025 was named Suha — 9 in all.
- Will my child share the name Suha with classmates?
- Suha will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Suha
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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