Name: Soraya
Gender: Female
Usage: Soraya, of persian origin, is a popular first name. It is more often used as a girl (female) name.
People having the name Soraya are in general originating from Algeria, France, Saudi Arabia, Spain, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Variants: For another variant of the name Soraya across the world, see Thurayya.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Soraya is: The Pleiades, Princess.
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Numerology of the first name Soraya: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 7. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: spiritual, intelligent, analytical, reserved, knowledgeable, mysterious, intuitive.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Philosophical, Spiritual
Ruling planet: Neptune
Colors: Green
Gemstones: Moonstone
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The name Soraya is ranked on the 3,666th position of the most used names. It means that this name is commonly used.
We estimate that there are at least 91700 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.002% of the population. The name Soraya has six characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Soraya for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
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History and Origin
Soraya (Persian: ثريا) is a feminine given name of Persian origin. It may refer to:
- Soraya Tarzi (1899–1968), wife of King Amanullah Khan of Afghanistan; as Queen she was an outspoken feminist leader
- Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari (1932–2001), second wife of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran, known during her marriage as Queen Soraya
- Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson, American journalist for National Public Radio
- Soraya (musician) (1969–2006), Colombian-American singer/songwriter
- Soraya Arnelas (born 1982), Spanish singer
- Soraya Saga (born 1969), Japanese illustrator and video-game story-writer
- Soraya, a small lunar crater within Alphonsus
- Soraya Serajeddini (1960–2006), Kurdish-Iranian human rights activist
- Soraya Telles (born 1958), Brazilian former middle distance runner
- Soraya Manutchehri is the subject of the 2008 film The Stoning of Soraya M..
- Sooraya Qadir (Dust), a Marvel comic book character from the X-Men series
- Soraya Post (born 1956) Swedish politician.
- Soraya is the title given to a person speaking the Soreth language, Soreth is a form of modern-day Aramaic, it also refers to people who are of Assyrian/Chaldean origin
- Soraya, a song on the album Animals as Leaders by the band of the same name
- a sunflower variety
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