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Surena

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Surena has been given to 95 babies in the U.S. since 1968. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2001, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Surena, 2011

1 in 457,000

Surena over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Surena: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Surena means

Surena is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Surena is used in Latin.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Latin, Surena is pronounced [suːˈreː.na].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 95 girls were recorded with the name Surena between 1968 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2001; its best national rank was #5,580 in 1968.

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 Surena?

Surena had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011
1 in 457,000
8 of 3,657,935 births
Among girls only
1 in 220,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2011
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
316,937 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Surena sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2011 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 316,937 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Surena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Surenas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Surena was born before 1994 — so the typical Surena is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
24.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
61.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
95
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 24.2% of all recorded uses (23).

Is Surena 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2001 (11)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,580
1968

Spellings of Surena

Surena is not the most common spelling — Selena is, with 18.3% against Surena's 0.03%.

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 Surena is used

Across 1910–2025, Surena was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,287,539 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Surena has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Surena around the world

Where Surena 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.

  • Canada
    2018–2018
    #2,905
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    2008–2009
    #708
    in 2009

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Surena by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,580
1968
Peak year
2001
11 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
95
Count in 2025
Under 5

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Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Surena

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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