Suriya
Saravanan Sivakumar, known professionally as Suriya, is an Indian actor and film producer who primarily works in Tamil cinema. One of the highest-paid Tamil film actors, Suriya is considered as one of the finest actors of Indian cinema. Suriya has received numerous accolades including two National Film Awards, seven Filmfare Awards South and ten Tamil Nadu State Film Awards.
- Thai
- Tamil
Meaning & Origin of Suriya
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Saravanan Sivakumar, known professionally as Suriya, is an Indian actor and film producer who primarily works in Tamil cinema. One of the highest-paid Tamil film actors, Suriya is considered as one of the finest actors of Indian cinema. Suriya has received numerous accolades including two National Film Awards, seven Filmfare Awards South and ten Tamil Nadu State Film Awards.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Thai
- Tamil
The Story of Suriya
American parents first put Suriya on the record books as a baby girl name in 1994, with 5 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 2008, when 28 Suriyas were born — ranking #5,142 that year. About 46% of every Suriya on record arrived during the 2010s, its defining decade. Suriya last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 7 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 240 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1990s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Suriya
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About the name Suriya
Suriya is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1994 and has accumulated 240 births in the dataset. Suriya's peak popularity came in 2008 when it ranked #5,142. Use the chart and map above to compare Suriya's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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