Sura — #6704 US girls' name
413 babies named Sura in U.S. Social Security records since 1975, with the highest year being 2023. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 62% of names given to girls today.
45% of everyone ever named Sura was born in this single decade.
27 babies were named Sura in 2023 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Sura
The Social Security Administration has registered 413 babies named Sura between 1975 and 2024, spanning 50 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sura currently holds the #6704 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 27 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Sura performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 185 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Sura shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 107 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Sura in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Sura in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 413 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Sura at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Sura popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1975
- Peak year (2023)
- 27
- Annual births at peak — across 50 years of records
Currently ranks #6704 among girls.
413 total births across 50 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2023 with 27 births in a single year.
Sura by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 185 births that decade — 45% of Sura's all-time total
Sura decade highlights
- Peak decade 185 births
- Runner-up 98 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Sura's strongest decade
185 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 45% of all-time use.
Sura by state
Where Sura concentrates geographically — total births since 1975
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 107 | 25.9% |
107 of 413 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 25.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 25.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1975–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.