Suraiyah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- su-RYE-ya
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
Suraiyah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “the Pleiades”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies).
What does Suraiyah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Suraiya; 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.
Meaning borrowed from Suraiya.
Is Suraiyah a girl's or a boy's name?
Suraiyah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Suraiyah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,990th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3 about 1 in 93,000 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, 3 girls in the UK were named Suraiyah, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2007, with 6 girls.
In 2025, 18 girls in the UK were given Suraiyah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,459, up from #5,990 for this spelling alone.
- Suraiya 15
- Suraiyah 3
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Suraiyah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 3 | #5,966 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,885 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 3 | #5,804 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 3 | #5,998 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 3 | #5,920 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 5 | #4,390 |
| 2011 | 3 | #6,007 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 3 | #5,772 |
| 2007 | 6 | #3,396 |
Names like Suraiyah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Nusaybah, Sumayyah, Aaliyah, Zainab, Safiya, Ruqayyah, Ayah, Abeeha, Hafsa, Hiba, Safaa
Other spellings of Suraiyah
Names related to Suraiyah
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) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Suraiyah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/suraiyah, updated 20 October 2026.