Suraj

given name · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Suraj is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 72nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Hindi सूरज (sūraj, “the sun”).

rarermore common
  • LKSri Lanka1 in 775◐
  • INIndia1 in 812
  • THThailand1 in 1.1K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈3.9K ●

across 7 countries

#755 ●

of 16M given names

8 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
271 ●

1.3M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 2.1K ◐

Guyana

Spellings & scripts●

SurajLatin · Hindi●2.3M records
สุรศThai · Thai●19K records
СуратCyrillic · Russian●774 records
শরৎBengali · Bangla●520 records
ᲡურაჯGeorgian · Georgian●107 records
ሱራEthiopic · Amharic●72 records
ସରତOdia · Odia●6 records
සිරිතSinhala · Sinhala●1 records

13 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sarath in LK Sri Lanka, AR Argentina, IT Italy, Surya in SG Singapore, FI Finland, Sarat in BR Brazil, ES Spain and สุรัตน์ in TH Thailand.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Hindi सूरज (sūraj, “the sun”).

Sources 1

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Suraj is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#724,371,8471.1M rec.—2.2KSuraj271
TH Thailand#153119,02160K rec.—#629,517สุรัตน์122
GB United Kingdom—6,5213.8K rec.—3Suraj107
NG Nigeria—4,9837.2K rec.——Suraj44
AU Australia—4,5834.6K rec.—2Suraj94
MY Malaysia—3,1122.2K rec.——Suraj33
US United States—2,57145K rec.1 in 129K7.4KSuraj258
LK Sri Lanka#391,8463.7K rec.——Sarath55
AE United Arab Emirates#2051,8271.6K rec.——Suraj62
SA Saudi Arabia#7111,771383 rec.——Suraj24
CA Canada—1,6301.6K rec.—2Suraj82
PK Pakistan—1,209128 rec.—listedSuraj20

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Languages●

  • Hindi2.3M79%
  • 386K13%
  • English63K2%
  • Bangla33K1%
  • Urdu28K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi2,309,62879%
385,81113%
English62,8242%
Bangla32,6121%
Urdu28,4371%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Suraj is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name6.5K records spelled Suraj15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Spain, United Kingdom

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Śűřåj, Súrāj, Sûràj, Šüřäj, Šûřâj

  • Polish given name1.3K records spelled Suraj2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, India, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Śűřáj

  • Russian given name850 records spelled Suraj13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, India, Ukraine, Azerbaijan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Сураж, Сурадж, Suradzh, Şuraj, Šùřäj

  • Danish given name699 records spelled Suraj15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, India, Norway, United States

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian

    Also written Šüřăj, Súrãj, Sùrãj, Sûrãj, Sùràj

40 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

010K20K30K19001920194019601980200024K · 1993

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Suraj in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1899–2016
Yearrecords
189920
19003
19011
19031
19061
19091
19111
19121
19134
19143
19155
19168
191710
191821
191924
192060
192151
192262
1923210
192498
1925100
192685
192789
192889
1929162
1930124
1931190
1932236
1933205
1934347
1935264
1936320
1937400
1938438
1939493
1940528
1941508
1942814
1943669
1944973
1945837
19461,024
19471,162
1948975
19491,152
19501,214
19511,202
19521,621
19531,089
19541,622
19551,364
19561,566
19571,764
19581,687
19592,091
19601,770
19611,724
19622,340
19631,968
19642,339
19652,091
19662,492
19672,511
19682,708
19692,412
19702,710
19712,580
19723,033
19732,777
19742,946
19752,808
19763,315
19772,981
19783,170
19793,338
19803,003
19813,999
19825,088
19835,563
19846,165
19856,598
19865,734
19878,532
19889,382
198910,888
199013,219
199116,311
199220,078
199324,150
199422,832
199522,475
199614,529
199713,560
199810,117
19991,209
200015
200112
20027
20032
200712
2008434
20097
2010224
201154
201247
201372
20141,576
2015423
20163

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 109 years between 1899–2016. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1700180019002000Maharaja Surajmal, b. 1707Suraj N. Gupta, b. 1924Suraj Bhan, b. 1928Suraj Abdurrahman, b. 1954Suraj Jagan, b. 1967Suraj Venjaramoodu, b. 1976Suraj Narredu, b. 1985Suraj Yengde, b. 1988Suraj Gowda, b. 1988Suraj Sharma, b. 1993

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 46 sources across 27 countries.

Official registers attesting Suraj
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—21K#582
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)—3K#1,526
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.6K#6,186
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025355#275
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—322#12,709
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—253#2,500
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026203#1,282
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—169#1,358
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—143#6,574
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—116#7,021
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—106#5,033
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—96#16,330

Reference works 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 378 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Suraj?
We estimate roughly 3.9 thousand people bear Suraj (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Suraj have the most bearers?
Suraj is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled suraj.
How common is Suraj compared with other names?
In India, Suraj is the 72nd most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Suraj a male or female name?
Suraj is a male 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 does the name Suraj mean?
Recorded meaning: Hindi सूरज (sūraj, “the sun”).
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Suraj” — the 72nd most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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