Meaning not yet researched.
Surya: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 47 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,047 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,047 in 2009; #2,750 in 2025. About 89% of babies named Surya in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,750 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #2,047.
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Surya: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 47 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,047 in 2009 · most boys in one year: 68 (2009).
In 2025, 47 US boys were named Surya, making it the 2,750th most common boys’ name of the year, down 43 places from #2,707 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 49 boys named Surya in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,047, reached in 2009. That year also had the most boys given the name: 68. For comparison, it was #2,480 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 6 US girls were named Surya, making it the 14,734th most common girls’ name of the year, down 6,357 places from #8,377 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 13 girls named Surya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #4,822, reached in 1994. That year also had the most girls given the name: 21. For comparison, it was #10,779 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Surya in 37 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1977 with 5 babies. In all, 1,549 US babies have been given the name, 22% of them girls and 78% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 539 babies named Surya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 450 US boys were named Surya; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 55. In 2025 that was about 1 in 36,342 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Surya ranked highest in Washington in 2025, at #1,140 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Suri (3,512 babies since 1880) and Sury (1,543 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Soriya, Suriyah and Sureya are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Soriya (394), Suriyah (228), Sureya (72), Zorya (39), Sourya (26), Soreya (22), Soorya (11), Zureya (7), Souriya (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Surya in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | 5 | #1,140 | — |
| Texas | 8 | #2,056 | — |
| California | 7 | #2,180 | #2,017 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,734 | 47 | #2,750 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,377 | 49 | #2,707 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,595 | 45 | #2,841 |
| 2022 | 8 | #12,121 | 44 | #2,911 |
| 2021 | 9 | #11,062 | 55 | #2,459 |
| 2020 | 8 | #12,024 | 29 | #3,718 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,679 | 42 | #2,936 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,744 | 49 | #2,611 |
| 2017 | — | — | 41 | #2,939 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,760 | 49 | #2,584 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,779 | 51 | #2,480 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,945 | 44 | #2,746 |
| 2013 | — | — | 42 | #2,800 |
| 2012 | 10 | #11,172 | 44 | #2,760 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,572 | 44 | #2,739 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,654 | 43 | #2,819 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,417 | 68 | #2,047 |
| 2008 | 12 | #10,009 | 51 | #2,507 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,738 | 46 | #2,679 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,312 | 47 | #2,570 |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,333 | 36 | #2,950 |
| 2004 | — | — | 36 | #2,874 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,347 | 39 | #2,614 |
| 2002 | — | — | 36 | #2,675 |
| 2001 | 10 | #10,023 | 40 | #2,477 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,447 | 40 | #2,421 |
| 1999 | — | — | 24 | #3,357 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,967 | 14 | #4,837 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,851 | 7 | #8,003 |
| 1996 | 13 | #7,085 | — | — |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,674 | — | — |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,822 | 8 | #6,896 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,435 | — | — |
| 1992 | 11 | #8,002 | — | — |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,984 | — | — |
| 1989 | 5 | #14,290 | — | — |
| 1977 | — | — | 5 | #6,741 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).