Surya

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Surya: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Surya: Recorded since 2001, it reached #1,732 in 2004, and it stood at #1,951 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
27times a registrar ranked it
24years from first to last
#1732highest recorded position
4groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2003–2023

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2003	#4373
2007	#4294
2008	#5545
2009	#5556
2010	#5707
2011	#5785
2015	#5730
2023	#5687

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 19 of the 24 years from 2001 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 2001–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2001
First recorded at #1949 among boys in England and Wales in 2001 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2001–2024
Highest recorded position: #1732 among boys in England and Wales, in 2004 (recorded 2001–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1951 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Surya appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 19 years beginning in 2001, and has registered 120 births with the name.

Surya across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Surya's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#1949 (2001)	#1732 (2004)	#1951 (2024)	19 of 24	120 (2001–2024)	12 (2024)
England and Wales · Girls	#4373 (2003)	#4294 (2007)	#5687 (2023)	8 of 21	25 (2003–2023)	4 (2007)

Surya by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Surya in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	37	6 of 10	6
2010s	44	8 of 10	6
2020sbusiest	39	5 of 10	8

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 8 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Surya appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2001 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1732 in England and Wales in 2004.

Surya's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#1951	12	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#5687	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#3112	6	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#3048	6	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2730	7	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2404	8	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3412	5	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3996	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#3079	6	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#5730	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#3362	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2660	7	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3039	6	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#3300	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#5707	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2941	6	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#5556	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#4527	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#5545	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2097	9	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#4294	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#4333	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2174	7	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1732	9	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#4373	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1949	6	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 2001 and 2024, ranked in 21 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #1,732, first reached in 2004.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 12 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Susann · #125, 43y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Tait · #1732, 22y
Lainie · #1731, 22y
Naz · #1729, 23y
Talula · #1729, 19y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Lainie · #1731, 22y
Naz · #1729, 23y
Bode · #1724, 18y
Dashiell · #1724, 22y

Surya and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Surya without appearing here.

Surya moved ahead of

Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3112 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1951 and #5119.
Shannon Compare
In 2007 they stood at #4333 and #3589 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #2097 and #4432.
Grant Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3112 and #2813 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1951 and #4270.
Brent Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3412 and #3412 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #2404 and #4608.

Moved ahead of Surya

Harper Compare
In 2006 they stood at #2174 and #2754 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #4333 and #2023.
Gustav Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2404 and #3334 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #2730 and #2125.
Mathias Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1949 and #3134 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #1732 and #1160.
Rune Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3412 and #4749 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #2404 and #2228.

Moved the same way as Surya

Garry Compare
Between 2001 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Surya went from #1949 to #3112 and Garry from #1135 to #4991.
Kelly Compare
Between 2001 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Surya went from #1949 to #3112 and Kelly from #1467 to #3523.
Brent Compare
Between 2001 and 2022 in England and Wales · Boys, Surya went from #1949 to #3048 and Brent from #1078 to #3449.
Ole Compare
Between 2001 and 2022 in England and Wales · Boys, Surya went from #1949 to #3048 and Ole from #3134 to #4789.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2001 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1732 in England and Wales in 2004. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Surya

Surya at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Surya across 2 official records

Surya by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Popularity data

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Surya across 2 official records

Surya by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Also first recorded in the 2000s

Surya and the names beside it

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