Sorayah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- so-RY-a
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #4,986 for girls
Sorayah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “the Pleiades”. In 2025 it ranked 4,986th for girls in the US (26 babies).
What does Sorayah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Soraya; Persian form of Arabic Thurayya
“the Pleiades”
The Persian form of Arabic Thurayya, the Pleiades star cluster; Queen Soraya was a famous 20th-century wife of the Shah of Iran.
Meaning borrowed from Soraya. More on Wiktionary.
Is Sorayah a girl's or a boy's name?
Sorayah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 26 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Sorayah in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2020, with 10 girls.
Half of all the girls named Sorayah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2011 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
Sorayah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3 | #5,966 |
| 2023 | 5 | #4,251 |
| 2022 | 9 | #2,805 |
| 2021 | 5 | #4,148 |
| 2020 | 10 | #2,566 |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,904 |
| 2018 | 7 | #3,344 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,951 |
| 2014 | 7 | #3,321 |
| 2013 | 6 | #3,719 |
| 2012 | 4 | #5,058 |
| 2011 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2010 | 6 | #3,715 |
| 2009 | 6 | #3,603 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 3 | #5,415 |
| 2006 | 4 | #4,357 |
How popular is Sorayah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,986among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 26about 1 in 62,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Risingup 38% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 26 girls in the US were named Sorayah, making it the 4,986th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. It first appears in the records in 1998.
2025 had the most girls named Sorayah of any year since it first appeared, in 1998.
Half of all the girls named Sorayah in the US since 1880 were born between 2011 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 339 girls in the US were given Sorayah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #783, up from #4,986 for this spelling alone.
- Soraya 313
- Sorayah 26
Sorayah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #4,986 |
| 2024 | 13 | #7,962 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,481 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,459 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,409 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,137 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,410 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,612 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,088 |
| 2016 | 14 | #7,985 |
| 2015 | 9 | #10,861 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,512 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,607 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,105 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,332 |
| 2010 | 6 | #14,953 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 10 | #10,802 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,671 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,412 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,495 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,172 |
| 2003 | 5 | #15,777 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,116 |
Names like Sorayah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Nusaybah Ayah Sumayyah Aaliyah Ruqayyah Zainab Safiya Abeeha Hafsa Safaa Hidayah
Other spellings of Sorayah
Names related to Sorayah
Suraya Serayah Sariyah Soraiya Seraya Saroya Saryah Soriah Soriyah
More Arabic names
Muhammad Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Amir Amira Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra Hamza
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, “Sorayah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/sorayah, updated 20 October 2026.