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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
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 2009
Top girls' names in 2009
Top boys' names in 2009
More about 2009
girls
1,837,114 girls got a published name in 2009; 1 in 122,474 of them was named Surya, which outranked 60.1% of the 20,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #7,679Zeva16
- #7,679Zyairah16
- #7,679Zykia16
- #8,058Surya15
- #8,058Aailyah15
- #8,058Aayushi15
- #8,058Abbiegail15
- #8,454Aarianna14
- #8,454Abagayle14
- #8,454Abigayl14
Tied with 395 names at #8,058; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,983,573 boys got a published name in 2009; 1 in 29,170 of them was named Surya, which outranked 86.0% of the 14,540 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,010Tim69
- #2,010Wylie69
- #2,010Yusef69
- #2,035Surya68
- #2,035Calen68
- #2,035Demarius68
- #2,035Domingo68
- #2,050Aaryan67
- #2,050Akash67
- #2,050Arion67
Tied with 14 names at #2,035; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.