Entry № 10153 · Arabic origin

Suraya Suraya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ soo-RAY-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"The Pleiades, star cluster"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Arabic)

A name that means "the pleiades, star cluster".

Suraya (ثريا) is the Arabic name for the Pleiades star cluster — visible in the night sky throughout the Mediterranean and Middle East, sacred in many ancient cultures.

Suraya is widely used across the Arab world and Iran.

The Pleiades. The Arabic star cluster.

The name in its native script.

ثريا
Transliteration
Thurayyā
Pronunciation
/ səˈreɪ.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Suraya stands.

Suraya does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Surayas before her.

Real people
Queen Soraya
Queen of Afghanistan.
1899 – 1968
In fiction
Suraya
Common in Arabic fiction.

Names connected to Suraya.

The number behind Suraya.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Suraya reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.