Entry № 10159 · Sanskrit origin

Surya Surya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SOOR-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Sun (Surya Bonaly, only figure skater to land backflip at Olympics)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "sun (surya bonaly, only figure skater to land backflip at olympics)".

Surya (सूर्य) is from the Sanskrit sūrya — "sun" — also the name of the Hindu solar deity, one of the principal Vedic gods, depicted driving a chariot pulled by seven horses. The Surya temple at Konark (13th century, Odisha) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The only figure skater in Olympic history to land a backflip on one blade — performed at the 1998 Nagano Olympics in protest of judging that placed her low; the move was technically illegal in competition but is considered one of the most-watched gestures of defiance in Winter Olympic history. Now a coach in Las Vegas. In Hindu Vedic literature, Surya is associated with the Gayatri mantra (one of the most-recited Sanskrit prayers in the world). Iyengar.

Sun (Surya Bonaly, only figure skater to land backflip at Olympics) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

सूर्य
Transliteration
Sūrya
Pronunciation
/ ˈsʊə.rjɑ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Surya stands.

Surya 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.

Suryas before her.

Real people
Surya Bonaly
French Olympic figure skater.
born 1973
In fiction
Surya
Hindu sun deity.

Names connected to Surya.

The number behind Surya.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Surya reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.