Soriyah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- soh-RY-ah
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #6,545 for girls
Soriyah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “the Pleiades”. In 2025 it ranked 6,545th for girls in the US (17 babies).
What does Soriyah mean?
Arabic: variant of Soraya, from Arabic Thurayya
“the Pleiades”
A spelling of Soraya, the Persian form of Arabic Thurayya, the star cluster known as the Pleiades.
Is Soriyah a girl's or a boy's name?
Soriyah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 17 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Soriyah in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2013, with 6 girls.
Soriyah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 4 | #4,870 |
| 2021 | 4 | #4,864 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 6 | #3,777 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 6 | #3,719 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 3 | #6,007 |
How popular is Soriyah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 6,545th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 17 about 1 in 95,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 10% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 17 girls in the US were named Soriyah, making it the 6,545th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,846th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 20 girls. It first appears in the records in 2003.
Half of all the girls named Soriyah in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Soriyah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,545 |
| 2024 | 20 | #5,959 |
| 2023 | 16 | #6,917 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,626 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,245 |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,846 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,694 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,146 |
| 2017 | 10 | #9,939 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,210 |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,830 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,480 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,230 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,193 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,719 |
| 2010 | 6 | #14,953 |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,698 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,125 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,601 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,455 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,401 |
Names like Soriyah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah, Safa, Nusaybah, Sumayyah, Ruqayyah, Aafiyah, Ayah, Abeeha, Safiya, Zainab, Hafsa, Safaa
Names related to Soriyah
Shriya, Sariyah, Sariah, Soraiya, Sorayah, Sriya, Suriya, Sariya, Seriyah, Saryah, Soriah, Syriah
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, “Soriyah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/soriyah, updated 20 October 2026.