Thuraya
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Star
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/θʊɹəjə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Thuraya is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Oman than in any other country.
- SYSyria≈1 in 37K(inferred from the name graph)
- OMOman≈1 in 4.3K
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 18K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Oman (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 48 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Oman, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Star.
Sources 1
- The African book of names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Thuraya counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OM Oman | #144 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Thuraya | 25 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Thuraya | 48 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Thuraya | 40 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Thuraya | 12 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 249K | listed | Thuraya | 25 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Thuraya | 24 |
| BH Bahrain | #321 | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Thuraya | 10 |
| SE Sweden | — | 39 | 1 in 262K | 39 | — | 5 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the wgnd-eg-names register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Thuraya Al-Hafezb. 1912SYSyrian politician and women's rights activist
- Thurayyā Ḥilmīb. 1923EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian actress
- Thuraya Qabilb. 1940SASaudi Arabian poet and journalist
- Thuraya al-Urayyidb. 1948SASaudi poet and writer
- Touriya Jabraneb. 1952MAnot in their usual nameMoroccan actress and politician (1952–2020)
- Thuraya Al-Baqsamib. 1952KWartist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 39 | #16,245 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 35 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 34 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 29 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 26 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 23 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 19 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 15 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 13 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | 13 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Thuraya mean, and where does it come from?
- Star. Recorded by The African book of names.
- How do you pronounce Thuraya?
- A machine transcription gives /θʊɹəjə/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Thuraya a male or female name?
- Thuraya is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Thuraya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Thuraya in Oman, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled thuraya.
- How common is the name Thuraya?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 39 people named Thuraya, about 1 in 262 thousand residents.
- How common is Thuraya compared with other names?
- In Oman, Thuraya is the 144th most common given name of 4,945 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Thuraya?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/thurayaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Thuraya” — the 144th most common given name in Oman. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.