Surya
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · #2,718 for boys in 2025, 47 births
Given to boys 78.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2009 · 68 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,215since 1977
Surya over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | #2,718 | 47 |
| 2024 | #7,967 | 13 | #2,674 | 49 |
| 2023 | #7,247 | 15 | #2,805 | 45 |
| 2022 | #11,231 | 8 | #2,873 | 44 |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 | #2,439 | 55 |
| 2020 | #11,090 | 8 | #3,653 | 29 |
| 2019 | #7,342 | 15 | #2,897 | 42 |
| 2018 | #9,151 | 11 | #2,579 | 49 |
| 2017 | — | #2,891 | 41 | |
| 2016 | #11,781 | 8 | #2,551 | 49 |
| 2015 | #10,148 | 10 | #2,457 | 51 |
| 2014 | #11,931 | 8 | #2,705 | 44 |
| 2013 | — | #2,763 | 42 | |
| 2012 | #10,429 | 10 | #2,716 | 44 |
| 2011 | #8,196 | 14 | #2,699 | 44 |
| 2010 | #8,271 | 14 | #2,787 | 43 |
| 2009 | #8,058 | 15 | #2,035 | 68 |
| 2008 | #9,476 | 12 | #2,467 | 51 |
| 2007 | #10,129 | 11 | #2,643 | 46 |
| 2006 | #11,417 | 9 | #2,542 | 47 |
| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 | #2,902 | 36 |
| 2004 | — | #2,843 | 36 | |
| 2003 | #9,671 | 10 | #2,579 | 39 |
| 2002 | — | #2,632 | 36 | |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 | #2,429 | 40 |
| 2000 | #6,208 | 17 | #2,379 | 40 |
| 1999 | — | #3,279 | 24 | |
| 1998 | #7,532 | 12 | #4,650 | 14 |
| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 | #7,281 | 7 |
| 1996 | #6,723 | 13 | — | |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 | — | |
| 1994 | #4,687 | 21 | #6,372 | 8 |
| 1993 | #7,038 | 12 | — | |
| 1992 | #7,512 | 11 | — | |
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| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Surya! It came in at #5,845, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1977–1993, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Surya is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Ohio#1,200 · 1 in 11,864
- California#1,561 · 1 in 20,335
- Texas#1,769 · 1 in 23,152
Best ever in a state: #703 in New Jersey, 2010.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Ohio | #1,200 | 5 | 1 in 11,864 |
| California | #1,561 | 11 | 1 in 20,335 |
| Texas | #1,769 | 8 | 1 in 23,152 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Surya
- 44 spots since 2024 (#2,674 → #2,718)
- 935 spots since 2020 (#3,653 → #2,718)
- 261 spots since 2015 (#2,457 → #2,718)
- Debuted 1977
- Peaked 2009 at #2,035 (68 births)
- Births halved by 2020, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 29,170 boys born in 2009 were named Surya (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 36,342 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 37.0% of all boys named Surya (449) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1996, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #5,845 (1977) | #5,845 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 53 | #3,279 (1999) | #5,396 |
| 2000s | 439 | #2,035 (2009) | #2,545 |
| 2010s | 449 | #2,457 (2015) | #2,705 |
| 2020s | 269 | #2,439 (2021) | #2,860 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Surya in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 221,503 of them was named Surya, which outranked 37.6% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #10,859Zuriyah9
- #10,859Zyann9
- #10,859Zylynn9
- #11,781Surya8
- #11,781Aalaya8
- #11,781Aalijah8
- #11,781Aaliyana8
- #12,876Aabha7
- #12,876Aadvi7
- #12,876Aagna7
Tied with 1,094 names at #11,781; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 38,729 of them was named Surya, which outranked 82.0% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,518Tyron50
- #2,518Unknown50
- #2,518Vidal50
- #2,551Surya49
- #2,551Abdias49
- #2,551Abhay49
- #2,551Akhil49
- #2,587Adem48
- #2,587Alen48
- #2,587Amon48
Tied with 35 names at #2,551; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.