Soraya

What Soraya means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Soraya yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Up from #1,227 in 2015 to #862 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Soraya?

US: Rising: up from #1227 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #722 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 313 girls got the name (#862 that year). First in the US records in 1955.

How common

• About 1 in 5,135 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 3,333 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NM (1.07 per 1,000 girls), OK (0.41 per 1,000 girls), MI (0.36 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Soraya is #862 in the US and #526 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Soraya were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Saroya143 US
• Saraya110 US · 15 E&W
• Serayah71 US · 16 E&W
• Sariya71 US
• Suraya33 US · 14 E&W
• Sarayah36 US · 8 E&W
• Zoraya27 US · 4 E&W
• Seraya23 US · 6 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Surayya
• Surayyo
• Sorayya

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Soraya

Girls

• Samira#723Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1961, with 5 babies
• Esther#119“star”^*
• Kira#385Editor’s note Down from #361 in 2015 to #385 in 2025 in the US
• Jazmin#710Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2006, with 2,240 babies; 395 in 2025
• Jazmine#992Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #446 in 2015, #992 in 2025
• Jasmine#206Editor’s note Down from #110 in 2015 to #206 in 2025 in the US

For a brother

• Cyrus#268Editor’s note Up from #469 in 2015 to #268 in 2025 in the US
• Casper#924Variant of Caspar, meaning “a given name”^*
• Jasper#129Editor’s note Up from #214 in 2015 to #129 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 610 US boys in the 2025 records
• Ahmad#669“praiseworthy”^*
• Darius#788Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1994, with 2,184 babies; 322 in 2025
• Emiliano#94Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #94 vs #1,359 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Persian where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Soraya’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.