Surya

given name · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Surya 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: Sanskrit: ‘sun’, the name of the sun god in his physical form, ruler of the sky, said to be the father of the twins Yama and Yami, primal man and woman.

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 ◐

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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

12 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Suraj in IN India, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 15 more, Sarath in LK Sri Lanka, AR Argentina, IT Italy, 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●

Sanskrit: ‘sun’, the name of the sun god in his physical form, ruler of the sky, said to be the father of the twins Yama and Yami, primal man and woman.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Surya 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

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hindi431K60%
  • 154K21%
  • Indonesian63K9%
  • English20K3%
  • Bangla7.2K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi431,15660%
154,35421%
Indonesian62,5369%
English19,9713%
Bangla7,1791%

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◐

Surya is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name169K records spelled Surya2 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Sūrya

  • Indonesian given name130K records spelled Surya11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, India, Malaysia, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Surya, Suryà, Sürýä, Súryà, Süryä

  • English given name28K records spelled Surya24 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Australia, Malaysia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Sürya, Suryá, Suerya, Sùryã, Suryà

  • Portuguese given name7.5K records spelled Surya7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, India, United States, Mexico

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Súrya, Sûryá, Sürya, Šüryã

  • Hindi given name5.4K records spelled Surya25 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Malaysia, Sri Lanka

    Languages: Hindi, Sinhala, Indonesian

    Also written Soorya, Suriya, Siriya, Zaria, සුරිය

  • Nepali given name1.9K records spelled Surya4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Nepal, Malaysia, United States

    Also written Sūrya, Sûryã, Süryâ

50 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.

Other recorded senses●

Surya is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Sanskrit, 'sun'

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

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    as a nameA Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India

  • In English, The chief solar deity, one of the Adityas, son of Kasyapa and one of his wives Aditi, of Indra, or of Dyaus Pita (depending by the versions). Portrayed with golden arms and hair, Surya drives through the heaven in his triumphal chariot harnessed by seven horses or one horse with seven heads, which represent the seven colours of the rainbow or the seven chakras.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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.

Over time●

05001K1.5K2K1900192019401960198020001.9K · 1993

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Surya in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1899–2016
Yearrecords
18993
19021
19143
19151
19175
19184
19195
192023
192110
192212
192313
192421
192524
192610
192736
192831
192946
193032
193160
1932111
193384
1934122
1935120
1936105
1937190
1938196
1939207
1940245
1941228
1942360
1943289
1944351
1945383
1946389
1947501
1948330
1949344
1950515
1951526
1952653
1953396
1954599
1955608
1956564
1957782
1958765
1959944
1960670
1961702
1962933
1963901
1964984
1965831
1966832
1967979
1968843
1969899
1970895
1971830
1972982
1973874
1974892
1975864
1976887
1977774
1978757
1979761
1980651
1981752
1982989
19831,023
19841,182
19851,047
1986985
19871,131
19881,116
19891,113
19901,223
19911,431
19921,634
19931,899
19941,594
19951,652
1996821
1997829
1998627
199933
20001
20031
2008124
20093
201048
201174
201235
201318
2014117
201545
20161

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 98 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●

18501900195020002050Surya Sen, b. 1894Surya Bikram Gyawali, b. 1898Surya Subedi, b. 1958Surya Bonaly, b. 1973Surya Ganguli, b. 1977Mouly Surya, b. 1980Suryakumar Yadav, b. 1990Made Deya Surya Saraswati, b. 1998Emanuel Joseph Surya Hartono, b. 2000Surya Charishma Tamiri, b. 2006

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 64 sources across 33 countries.

Official registers attesting Surya
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202K#5,953
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—1.6K#3,760
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020793#5,953
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022378—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—369#16,233
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020229#87,312
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010170#105,079
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—119#33,367
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—118#7,630
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000113#136,783
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202691#2,213
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—89#5,528

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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 · 409 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Surya?
We estimate roughly 3.9 thousand people bear Surya (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Surya have the most bearers?
Surya is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled suraj.
How common is Surya compared with other names?
In India, Surya is the 72nd most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Surya a male or female name?
Surya 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 Surya mean?
Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘sun’, the name of the sun god in his physical form, ruler of the sky, said to be the father of the twins Yama and Yami, primal man and woman.
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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, “Surya” — the 72nd most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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