Surraya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- soo-RYE-a
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
Surraya is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “the Pleiades star cluster”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies).
What does Surraya 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 Surraya a girl's or a boy's name?
Surraya 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 Surraya 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 Surraya, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 5 girls.
In 2025, 27 girls in the UK were given Surraya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,110, up from #5,990 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Surraya in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 4 | #4,907 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 4 | #4,864 |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 3 | #5,896 |
| 2017 | 3 | #5,998 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 5 | #4,294 |
Names like Surraya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Abeeha, Nusaybah, Khadija, Ayah, Safiya, Amira, Hiba, Sumayyah, Hafsa, Safaa, Ruqayyah
Other spellings of Surraya
Suraya, Surayah, Surayya
Names related to Surraya
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, 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, “Surraya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/surraya, updated 20 October 2026.