Saroya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- sa-ROY-a
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #1,493 for girls
Saroya is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “the Pleiades”. In 2025 it ranked 1,493rd for girls in the US (143 babies).
What does Saroya mean?
Arabic: probably a variant of Soraya, from Arabic Thurayya
“the Pleiades”
Soraya is the Persian form of Arabic Thurayya, the name of the Pleiades star cluster.
Is Saroya a girl's or a boy's name?
Saroya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 143 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Saroya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,493rd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 143 about 1 in 11,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Newly popular new in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 143 girls in the US were named Saroya, making it the 1,493rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 15,083rd. It first appears in the records in 1961.
2025 had the most girls named Saroya of any year since it first appeared, in 1961.
Half of all the girls named Saroya in the US since 1880 were born between 2020 and 2025, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 150 girls in the US were given Saroya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,273, up from #1,493 for this spelling alone.
- Saroya 143
- Saroyah 7
Saroya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 143 | #1,493 |
| 2024 | 42 | #3,639 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,300 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,083 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 5 | #15,898 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,413 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,771 |
| 1993 | 6 | #11,773 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,504 |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 6 | #10,841 |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,304 |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,222 |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,390 |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 0 | – |
| 1977 | 0 | – |
| 1976 | 0 | – |
| 1975 | 0 | – |
| 1974 | 0 | – |
| 1973 | 0 | – |
| 1972 | 0 | – |
| 1971 | 0 | – |
| 1970 | 0 | – |
| 1969 | 0 | – |
| 1968 | 0 | – |
| 1967 | 0 | – |
| 1966 | 0 | – |
| 1965 | 0 | – |
| 1964 | 0 | – |
| 1963 | 0 | – |
| 1962 | 0 | – |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,566 |
Names like Saroya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Adhara, Amoura, Sariyah, Xamira, Sama, Inaya, Safiya, Zhamira, Liyana, Safa, Samadhi, Alaia
Names related to Saroya
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Saroya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/saroya, updated 20 October 2026.