Baby name
STABLE
🇩🇪 🇪🇸 🇧🇷 Soraya
/soh · RYE · ah/
Meaning
“The Pleiades”
Persian name from Old Iranian meaning 'the Pleiades' (the star cluster); associated with Empress Soraya Esfandiary, Queen of Iran in the 1950s.
Nicknames
sora
Vibe
warm
How it ages.
Regal and timeless; the royal Persian association gives it gravitas that ages beautifully.
The cultural moment.
Popular in Iran and among the Iranian diaspora; fashionable in Germany and Spain in the 1970s-80s after the empress.