Suraya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- soo-RYE-a
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,076 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #4,264 for girls
Suraya is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “the Pleiades star cluster”. In 2025 it ranked 2,076th for girls in the UK (14 babies) and 4,264th for girls in the US (33 babies).
What does Suraya mean?
Arabic: form of Thurayya, via Persian and Urdu
“the Pleiades star cluster”
Thurayya is the Arabic name for the Pleiades; Soraya and Suraiya are related forms of the same name.
Is Suraya a girl's or a boy's name?
Suraya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 14 girls in the UK and 33 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Suraya in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,076th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 14 about 1 in 20,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 24% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 14 girls in the UK were named Suraya, making it the 2,076th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,480th. Its busiest year was 2011, with 31 girls.
Half of all the girls named Suraya in the UK since 1996 were born between 2009 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 27 girls in the UK were given Suraya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,110, up from #2,076 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 2,006th in England and Wales.
Suraya in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #2,076 |
| 2024 | 13 | #2,175 |
| 2023 | 17 | #1,798 |
| 2022 | 21 | #1,527 |
| 2021 | 25 | #1,353 |
| 2020 | 22 | #1,480 |
| 2019 | 14 | #2,052 |
| 2018 | 22 | #1,524 |
| 2017 | 18 | #1,763 |
| 2016 | 18 | #1,781 |
| 2015 | 23 | #1,474 |
| 2014 | 26 | #1,336 |
| 2013 | 25 | #1,402 |
| 2012 | 25 | #1,384 |
| 2011 | 31 | #1,165 |
| 2010 | 26 | #1,299 |
| 2009 | 29 | #1,147 |
| 2008 | 23 | #1,346 |
| 2007 | 16 | #1,694 |
| 2006 | 10 | #2,263 |
| 2005 | 11 | #2,061 |
| 2004 | 11 | #1,949 |
| 2003 | 12 | #1,730 |
| 2002 | 7 | #2,436 |
| 2001 | 5 | #2,928 |
| 2000 | 11 | #1,689 |
| 1999 | 5 | #2,912 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 8 | #2,073 |
How popular is Suraya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,264th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 33 about 1 in 49,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 23% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 33 girls in the US were named Suraya, making it the 4,264th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,261st. Its busiest year was 2023, with 39 girls. It first appears in the records in 1975.
Half of all the girls named Suraya in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 59 girls in the US were given Suraya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,353, up from #4,264 for this spelling alone.
Suraya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33 | #4,264 |
| 2024 | 28 | #4,770 |
| 2023 | 39 | #3,831 |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,470 |
| 2021 | 34 | #4,163 |
| 2020 | 32 | #4,261 |
| 2019 | 32 | #4,342 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,788 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,295 |
| 2016 | 21 | #5,983 |
| 2015 | 32 | #4,402 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,766 |
| 2013 | 24 | #5,484 |
| 2012 | 31 | #4,599 |
| 2011 | 28 | #4,913 |
| 2010 | 28 | #4,972 |
| 2009 | 36 | #4,195 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,011 |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,095 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,684 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,133 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,211 |
| 2003 | 16 | #6,880 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,039 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,317 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,802 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,798 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,579 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,065 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,562 |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 9 | #8,798 |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,483 |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,187 |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 5 | #10,907 |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,272 |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 0 | – |
| 1977 | 0 | – |
| 1976 | 0 | – |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,065 |
Names like Suraya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Inaya, Anaya, Aaliyah, Amira, Khadija, Amaya, Raya, Safiya, Zainab, Sumayyah, Hafsa
Other spellings of Suraya
Surayah, Surayya, Surraya, Soriah
Names related to Suraya
Soraya, Serayah, Suraiya, Soraiya, Sorayah, Seraya, Sayra, Surah, Sury, Surya, Sura
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, “Suraya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/suraya, updated 20 October 2026.