Soraiya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- so-RAI-ya
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,935 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #7,883 for girls
Soraiya is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “the Pleiades”. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies) and 7,883rd for girls in the US (13 babies).
What does Soraiya mean?
Arabic: spelling of Soraya, from Arabic thurayya
“the Pleiades”
Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary was queen of Iran as the second wife of the last Shah.
Is Soraiya a girl's or a boy's name?
Soraiya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls in the UK and 13 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Soraiya in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,935th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 4 about 1 in 70,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 6% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 4 girls in the UK were named Soraiya, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th. Its busiest year was 2016, with 12 girls.
Half of all the girls named Soraiya in the UK since 1996 were born between 2013 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales.
Soraiya in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,935 |
| 2024 | 8 | #3,076 |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,929 |
| 2022 | 5 | #4,168 |
| 2021 | 5 | #4,148 |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 5 | #4,214 |
| 2018 | 8 | #3,068 |
| 2017 | 10 | #2,652 |
| 2016 | 12 | #2,363 |
| 2015 | 9 | #2,855 |
| 2014 | 9 | #2,809 |
| 2013 | 8 | #3,060 |
| 2012 | 7 | #3,471 |
| 2011 | 8 | #3,041 |
| 2010 | 3 | #5,938 |
| 2009 | 4 | #4,795 |
| 2008 | 3 | #5,772 |
How popular is Soraiya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 7,883rd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 13 about 1 in 120,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 13 girls in the US were named Soraiya, making it the 7,883rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 15 girls. It first appears in the records in 2008.
Half of all the girls named Soraiya in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Soraiya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #7,883 |
| 2024 | 11 | #8,941 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,242 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,377 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,459 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,350 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,422 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,685 |
| 2016 | 7 | #12,871 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,004 |
| 2014 | 9 | #10,949 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,230 |
| 2012 | 6 | #14,956 |
| 2011 | 6 | #14,816 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,442 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,288 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,574 |
Names like Soraiya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Abeeha, Nusaybah, Safiya, Safaa, Hafsa, Sumayyah, Zainab, Aaliyah, Rumaysa, Amira, Ruqayyah
Names related to Soraiya
Soraya, Suraya, Suraiya, Sariyah, Sorayah, Seraya, Sariya, Saroya, Soriya, Saraiya
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza, Kairo
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Soraiya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/soraiya, updated 20 October 2026.