Surayya
given name · Latin script
Meaning: noble
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sɝeɪjə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Surayya is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 34K(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 183K
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 4.5Kas Suraiya
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Surayya itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 106 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈36,000 named Suraiya, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Azerbaijan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
10 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Suraiya in US United States, BD Bangladesh, MY Malaysia and Сурайя in AZ Azerbaijan, UZ Uzbekistan.
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)
noble
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Surayya 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #358 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | listed | Suraiya | 54 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Surayya | 26 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | 4 | Сурайя | 4 |
| PK Pakistan | #177 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 183K | listed | Surayya | 22 |
| US United States | — | 1,104as Saria | 1 in 301K | 1.1K | Suraiya | 106 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Suraiya | 24 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 51K | listed | Сурайя | 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 pk-muslim-names-cc0 register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; the uz-ismlarim register. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Surayya is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Variant of THURAYYA. +
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
rich; lustre
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
In Arabic, the Pleiades; a wealthy lady; lustre, chandelier
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, the Pleiades. See Parvin (P) C2902:
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Surayya Khatoonb. 1957botanist
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 20 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 5 | — |
| AZ Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics | — | 4 | — |
| UZ Uzbekistan | ismlarim.uz — Uzbek given names | — | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Surayya mean, and where does it come from?
- noble Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Surayya?
- A machine transcription gives /sɝeɪjə/ (IPA) for Urdu.
- Is Surayya a male or female name?
- Surayya 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.
- What are other forms of the name Surayya?
- In the etymology graph, Suraya and Thurayya are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Surayya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 36 thousand people named Suraiya in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Surayya?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,104 people named Saria in 2020, about 1 in 301 thousand residents.
- How common is Surayya compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Surayya is the 358th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Surayya?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/surayyaThe 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, “Surayya” — the 358th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.