Given name
Soraia
Soraia is a feminine given name from Arabic. It is used in Portuguese.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2015. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Soraia through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 36
- 0 boys · 36 girls
- Most popular year
- 2015
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 9
- #10,812 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 9 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 10,812 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 262 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Soraia’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Soraia
- Soraia ChavesModel and actressborn 1982
- Soraia AndréBrazilian judokaborn 1964
- Soraia Ramossinger of Cape Verdean originborn 1992
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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