Suraj
From Sanskrit *sūrya*, "sun", sharing a root with Latin *sol* and Lithuanian *saulė*. In Poland it's rare: most Poles have never met a Suraj, and it comes with no name-day of its own.
Suraj Pronunciation
Suraj is pronounced SOO-rahy (/ˈsuraj/).
What Suraj means
Where Suraj comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Suraj begins in Sanskrit. The word sūrya names the sun, and surāj holds that same daylight sense. The root goes back to an old Indo-European word for the sun, the same ancestor behind Latin sol and Lithuanian saulė. In Polish the meaning lands as słońce.
The name is common across India, where it is given to boys. One documented bearer is Suraj Sharma, the actor who played Pi in the 2012 film Life of Pi. He was a teenager from Delhi with no acting experience when the part was cast.
In Poland the name has no imieniny of its own, so a boy named Suraj would not hear it read from a name-day calendar. On a form at the urząd it stands alone, without a Polish diminutive attached to it. The meaning does not change at the border. Suraj is the sun.
How many people are named Suraj
1 in 126309 men in Poland is named Suraj. 169 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2469 among male names.
Suraj as a middle name
Suraj is a first name for 169 men in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 99/1 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 8871st, between Sune (2) and Sushant (2).
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#8869 Sumon2
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#8870 Sune2
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#8871 Suraj2
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#8872 Sushant2
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#8873 Sverre2