Suriya as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Suriya

What is the meaning of the name Suriya ?

The baby name Suriya is a girl name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced SOO-ree-yah.

Suriya is Pali, Sanskrit in Origin.

Suriya is a romanized spelling of Indic Sūrya, the Vedic Sanskrit name of the sun and of the solar deity. The earliest attested form is Sanskrit Sū́rya, found in the Rigveda, with the literal sense sun. Its long ū and the adjectival-looking -ya ending belong to an old Indo-Iranian solar word family; Pali and later vernacular forms often insert an -i-, giving suriya or similar spellings.

In Hindu tradition, Sūrya is a major Vedic deity and one of the Navagraha, so the name has long circulated in religious and calendrical contexts. Pali Buddhism carried suriya into Sinhala and Thai usage, where it can appear as a personal name or element in compounds. In India, Surya is more often masculine, while Suriya is used across South Asian and diaspora communities and is also encountered for girls in modern records.