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Soraia Soraia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ soh-RAI-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Pleiades / star (Portuguese variant of Soraya)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Persian)

A name that means "pleiades / star (portuguese variant of soraya)".

Soraia is from the Portuguese Soraia — Portuguese rendition of the Persian Sorayyā (سُرَيّا — the Pleiades star cluster). Soraia is one of the Portuguese feminine names. The Persian Sorayyā refers to the Pleiades (seven sisters) star cluster — central to Persian + Arabic astronomical heritage.

Pleiades star cluster (Portuguese-Persian).

The name in its native script.

Soraia
Transliteration
Soraia
Pronunciation
/ soʊˈraɪ.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Soraia stands.

Soraia does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Soraias before her.

Real people

In fiction
Soraia / Soraya
Persian Pleiades star cluster.

Names connected to Soraia.

The number behind Soraia.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Soraia reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.