Sura
Sura was given to 19 girls in 2025, #6,296 among girls’ names; 432 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sura by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sura?
#6,296 among girls’ names, 2025
Sura fell from #5,812 in 2015 to #6,296 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 12.9 to 11.8 per million.
27 babies in 2023, the peak
Sura peaked in 2023, when 27 girls were given it, #4,983 among girls’ names. The 19 births of 2025 are 70% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,296 | 11.8 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,899 | 10.5 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,983 | 16.8 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,590 | 9.1 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,721 | 13.4 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,886 | 10.5 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,387 | 11.3 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,594 | 13.5 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,858 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,871 | 10.2 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #5,812 | 12.9 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,595 | 9.0 |
| 2013 | 24 | #5,624 | 13.7 |
| 2012 | 18 | #7,106 | 10.2 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,567 | 8.0 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,872 | 10.7 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,910 | 6.5 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,467 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,783 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,963 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,200 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,617 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 5 | #18,076 | 2.7 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,624 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,290 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,231 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,288 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,503 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,574 | 2.9 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,494 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,304 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,939 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 6 | #12,172 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 6 | #10,112 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,347 | 3.5 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,900 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sura a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sura has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sura: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sura, and how old are they?
An estimated 428 Americans named Sura and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 781 people named Sura (732 women and girls, 49 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 316 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Sura born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 9 | #1,515 | 4.3× |
Where Sura is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sura is most over-represented in New York: since 1975 it was given 4.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Sura with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,072 babies since 1880, Sura is the fourth most given (6.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 19 of their 263 babies (7.2%), the fifth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Sura
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Sura and names like it
- Compare Sura and SuriBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSura peaked in 2023.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sura since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Sura.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Sura alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.