Zoraya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- zo-RAI-ya
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,935 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #4,877 for girls
Zoraya is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “the Pleiades”. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies) and 4,877th for girls in the US (27 babies).
What does Zoraya mean?
Arabic: variant of Soraya, from thurayya
“the Pleiades”
More on Wiktionary.
Is Zoraya a girl's or a boy's name?
Zoraya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls in the UK and 27 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zoraya in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,935th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 4 about 1 in 70,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 200% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 4 girls in the UK were named Zoraya, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 4 girls.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales.
Zoraya in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,935 |
| 2024 | 4 | #4,907 |
| 2023 | 1 | #7,582 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 3 | #6,009 |
How popular is Zoraya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,877th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 27 about 1 in 60,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 40% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 27 girls in the US were named Zoraya, making it the 4,877th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,208th. It first appears in the records in 1970.
2025 had the most girls named Zoraya of any year since it first appeared, in 1970.
Half of all the girls named Zoraya in the US since 1880 were born between 2001 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
Zoraya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #4,877 |
| 2024 | 20 | #5,959 |
| 2023 | 20 | #5,955 |
| 2022 | 22 | #5,635 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,569 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,208 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,694 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,096 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,836 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,794 |
| 2015 | 20 | #6,234 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,480 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,368 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,107 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,561 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,227 |
| 2009 | 13 | #8,884 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,796 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,319 |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,838 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,595 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,259 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,202 |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,831 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,717 |
| 2000 | 9 | #9,867 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,216 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 7 | #10,831 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,576 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,509 |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 6 | #11,773 |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,745 |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,417 |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,235 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,409 |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,788 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,008 |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,748 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,650 |
| 1976 | 0 | – |
| 1975 | 9 | #5,982 |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,678 |
| 1973 | 0 | – |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,290 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,386 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,760 |
Names like Zoraya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Zainab, Aaliyah, Amira, Hafsa, Khadija, Hiba, Safiya, Ayah, Halima, Abeeha, Nusaybah
Names related to Zoraya
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, “Zoraya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zoraya, updated 20 October 2026.