Suraiya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- su-RYE-ya
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,961 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #9,454 for girls
Suraiya is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “the Pleiades”. In 2025 it ranked 1,961st for girls in the UK (15 babies) and 9,454th for girls in the US (10 babies).
What does Suraiya mean?
Arabic: Urdu and Persian form of Thurayya
“the Pleiades”
Arabic Thurayya names the Pleiades star cluster; Suraiya was a celebrated Indian film actress and singer of the 1940s and 50s.
Is Suraiya a girl's or a boy's name?
Suraiya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 15 girls in the UK and 10 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Suraiya in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,961st among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 15 about 1 in 19,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 26% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 15 girls in the UK were named Suraiya, making it the 1,961st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,268th. Its busiest year was 2012, with 22 girls.
2025 had more girls named Suraiya than any year since 2019.
Half of all the girls named Suraiya in the UK since 1996 were born between 2006 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 18 girls in the UK were given Suraiya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,459, up from #1,961 for this spelling alone.
- Suraiya 15
- Suraiyah 3
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,892nd in England and Wales.
Suraiya in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #1,961 |
| 2024 | 9 | #2,832 |
| 2023 | 7 | #3,388 |
| 2022 | 14 | #2,052 |
| 2021 | 11 | #2,478 |
| 2020 | 12 | #2,268 |
| 2019 | 18 | #1,729 |
| 2018 | 12 | #2,320 |
| 2017 | 14 | #2,099 |
| 2016 | 16 | #1,941 |
| 2015 | 13 | #2,186 |
| 2014 | 19 | #1,656 |
| 2013 | 17 | #1,798 |
| 2012 | 22 | #1,516 |
| 2011 | 20 | #1,570 |
| 2010 | 17 | #1,757 |
| 2009 | 15 | #1,848 |
| 2008 | 13 | #2,046 |
| 2007 | 21 | #1,374 |
| 2006 | 18 | #1,481 |
| 2005 | 5 | #3,543 |
| 2004 | 10 | #2,064 |
| 2003 | 18 | #1,317 |
| 2002 | 6 | #2,691 |
| 2001 | 9 | #1,974 |
| 2000 | 9 | #1,942 |
| 1999 | 8 | #2,089 |
| 1998 | 6 | #2,535 |
| 1997 | 5 | #2,896 |
| 1996 | 3 | #3,935 |
How popular is Suraiya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 9,454th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 10 about 1 in 160,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 5% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 10 girls in the US were named Suraiya, making it the 9,454th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,964th. Its busiest year was 2010, with 20 girls. It first appears in the records in 2004.
Half of all the girls named Suraiya in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Suraiya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,454 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,391 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,675 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,237 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,409 |
| 2020 | 13 | #7,964 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,410 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,612 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,772 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,263 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,449 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,230 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,706 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,719 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,380 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,288 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,525 |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,630 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,606 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,003 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,172 |
Names like Suraiya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Safiya, Sumayyah, Abeeha, Nusaybah, Aaliyah, Safaa, Hafsa, Zainab, Ruqayyah, Amira, Hiba
Other spellings of Suraiya
Suraiyah
Names related to Suraiya
Soraya, Suraya, Sariyah, Soraiya, Seraya, Surah, Sariya, Surya, 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, “Suraiya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/suraiya, updated 20 October 2026.