MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Surya mean?
Surya is the Sanskrit name of the sun and its divine personification. Vedic poetry treats the visible sun and the solar god as closely connected.
Pronunciation
IAST: sūrya
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सूर्य
Letter-by-letter: sūrya
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
सूर्या
Letter-by-letter: sūryā
5,252 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Surya in Indian usage
48,761 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 24,933 records (51.1%).
- Recorded as male: 23,828 records (48.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 2,034 |
| 1950s | 4,211 |
| 1960s | 5,778 |
| 1970s | 7,175 |
| 1980s | 12,825 |
| 1990s | 16,176 |
| Other decades | 562 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Andhra Pradesh | 32,730 |
| Kerala | 6,142 |
| Rajasthan | 2,312 |
| Delhi | 2,248 |
| Bihar | 1,699 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,078 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 475 |
| Jharkhand | 447 |
| Goa | 401 |
| Puducherry | 216 |
| Maharashtra | 197 |
| Karnataka | 107 |
| Sikkim | 105 |
| Other states | 604 |
How to read these numbers
Small counts and a second count where needed are withheld for privacy; an omitted value is not zero. Coverage, dates and suppression.
Recorded abroad
Official births registered in 2025, for the exact spelling shown.
| Jurisdiction | Spelling / recorded sex | Births | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England & Wales | Surya / M | 4 | 4,275 |
ONS and National Records of Scotland; Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3. Counts follow each office’s publication rules.
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Sources
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- England & Wales 2025 birth statistics: Exact spelling Surya; Table_6, C5023 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Exact spelling Surya; Table_6, C5023
- Monier-Williams, sūrya, p. 1243,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.