Surayah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- soo-RYE-a
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,409 for girls
Surayah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “the Pleiades star cluster”. In 2025 it ranked 3,409th for girls in the UK (7 babies).
What does Surayah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Suraya, itself a 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.
Meaning borrowed from Suraya.
Is Surayah a girl's or a boy's name?
Surayah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Surayah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,409th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 40,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 50% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the UK were named Surayah, making it the 3,409th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th.
2025 had the most girls named Surayah of any year since it first appeared, in 2004.
In 2025, 27 girls in the UK were given Surayah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,110, up from #3,409 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,332nd in England and Wales.
Surayah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #3,409 |
| 2024 | 5 | #4,253 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,885 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 5 | #4,204 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 3 | #6,003 |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
| 2011 | 5 | #4,244 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 3 | #5,801 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 4 | #3,916 |
Names like Surayah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Ayah, Nusaybah, Sumayyah, Aaliyah, Safiya, Zainab, Ruqayyah, Hafsa, Abeeha, Hidayah, Aafiyah
Other spellings of Surayah
Suraya, Surayya, Surraya
Names related to Surayah
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, “Surayah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/surayah, updated 20 October 2026.