Suriyah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- SOO-ree-yah
- Origin
- Sanskrit
- US rank, 2025
- #7,131 for girls
Suriyah is a girls' name of Sanskrit origin, meaning “sun”. In 2025 it ranked 7,131st for girls in the US (15 babies).
What does Suriyah mean?
Sanskrit: spelling of Suriya; Tamil form of Surya
“sun”
Surya is the Hindu sun deity; some families use Suriya instead as a spelling of Soraya, the Arabic name for the Pleiades.
Meaning borrowed from Suriya.
Is Suriyah a girl's or a boy's name?
Suriyah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 15 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Suriyah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 7,131st among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 15 about 1 in 110,000 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, 15 girls in the US were named Suriyah, making it the 7,131st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. Its busiest year was 2010, with 21 girls. It first appears in the records in 2005.
2025 had more girls named Suriyah than any year since 2010.
Half of all the girls named Suriyah in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
Suriyah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,131 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,156 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,481 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,050 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,201 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,350 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,142 |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,709 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,109 |
| 2015 | 9 | #10,861 |
| 2014 | 12 | #8,961 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,031 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,719 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,180 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,541 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,105 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,516 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,412 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,003 |
Names like Suriyah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Sariyah, Zaniyah, Aaliyah, Kaliyah, Zaliyah, Samiyah, Naziyah, Jaliyah, Kamiyah, Aziyah, Saniyah, Hadassah
Names related to Suriyah
More Sanskrit names
Maya, Bodhi, Arya, Lila, Arjun, Aarav, Rohan, Kali, Aryan, Opal, Arjan, Vihaan, Aadhya, Avyaan, Ishaan, Siya
Sources
Figures from 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, “Suriyah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/suriyah, updated 20 October 2026.