Entry № 10071 · Arabic origin

Suheir Suheir — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ soo-HAIR /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Small star, the wakeful"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Arabic)

A name that means "small star, the wakeful".

Suheir (سهير) is the Arabic word for "small star" or "the wakeful one" — the star visible just before dawn.

Suheir Hammad (born 1973) is the Palestinian-American poet.

Small star. The Palestinian-American poet.

The name in its native script.

سهير
Transliteration
Suhayr
Pronunciation
/ suːˈhaɪr /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Suheir stands.

Suheir does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Suheirs before her.

Real people
Suheir Hammad
Palestinian-American poet.
born 1973
In fiction
Suheir
Common in Arabic fiction.

Names connected to Suheir.

The number behind Suheir.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Suheir reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.