THE MEANING & THE CONTEXT
The story behind Soraya
Soraya appears in 1 eligible record in the OpenHalalan transcription of COMELEC’s 2001 elected-candidate lists. The recorded spelling is kept separate from other spellings. This documents a source-reported name form, not a lexical meaning, a birth count, or a national popularity rank.
Pronunciation & syllables
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Spanish
- /soˈɾaʝa/
- [soˈɾa.ʝa]
- /soˈɾaʃa/
- [soˈɾa.ʃa]
- /soˈɾaʒa/
- [soˈɾa.ʒa]
- /soˈɾaja/
- [soˈɾa.ja]
So · ra · ya3 source divisions
Dictionary reading & contributors ↗Wiktionary contributors / Kaikki / Wiktextract · CC BY-SA 4.0
Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
EnglishEtymology & source
Borrowed from Iranian Persian ثریا (sorayyâ), from Classical Persian ثریا (surayyā, “brilliant gem; Pleiades”), ultimately from Arabic ثُرَيَّا (ṯurayyā).
A female given name from Persian.
Wiktionary: Soraya (English) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
SpanishEtymology & source
Borrowed from Iranian Persian ثریا (sorayyâ), from Classical Persian ثریا (surayyā, “brilliant gem; Pleiades”), ultimately from Arabic ثُرَيَّا (ṯurayyā).
Soraya: a female given name from Persian
Wiktionary: Soraya (Spanish) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Source accounts remain in their original English; editorial summaries and filters are adapted. Attribution and downloads
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
1
eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Soraya in the birth records
Exact spelling, stated year, published top-ten tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Available publications: 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. No 2021 count is inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Soraya
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Haraya♂♀Imagination
- Hiraya♂♀Imagination; a variant of haraya
- Sonya·Name formation documented in dictionary sources
- Aya♀Name formation documented in dictionary sources
- Ligaya♀Joy
- Malaya♂♀Free; not under another’s control
- Maya♀Name formation documented in dictionary sources
- Naya♀Given name documented in Philippine-linked records; lexical meaning not established here
What rhymes with Soraya?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Explore Soraya further
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wiktionary contributors — Soraya (English) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.
- Wiktionary contributors — Soraya (Spanish) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.