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Suraj

#6,751 in 2025Boys' name

The sun

Suraj has been given to 1,099 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #6,751 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 54 recorded.

Babies named Suraj, 2025

1 in 255,000

Suraj over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Suraj: meaning, origin, and history

The sun

Hindi

What Suraj means

Suraj means “the sun”, associated with sūraj.

Origin, language, and formation

Suraj is used in English. Its origins include Hindi.

Suraj comes through Hindi सूरज.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,099 boys were recorded with the name Suraj between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 54 in 2003; its best national rank was #1,945 in 1995.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,247 in 2020 to #6,751 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,708 in 2015 to #6,751 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Suraj?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 131,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,751
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Suraj sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Suraj. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Surajs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Suraj was born before 2002 — so the typical Suraj is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
34.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
53.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,099
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Choose a decade

2000s — 34.4% of all recorded uses (378).

Is Suraj rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+2,996
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−504
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,043
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.81×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
24.1%
Peak was 2003 (54)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,945
1995

Spellings of Suraj

Suraj is not the most common spelling — Semaj is, with 26.4% against Suraj's 3.9%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Suraj is used

Across 1910–2025, Suraj was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 224,878 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 100,000
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Suraj has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Suraj around the world

Where Suraj ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2021
    #4,789
    in 2021
  • Scotland
    1990–2007
    #595
    in 2007
  • France
    1998–2021
    #6,395
    in 2021
  • Canada
    1991–2010
    #2,386
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    1979–2001
    #399
    in 2001

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Suraj by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,751
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 504
Best rank ever
#1,945
1995
Peak year
2003
54 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,099
Count in 2025
13

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