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The name Thurayya is a girl's name of Arabic origin meaning "the Pleiades Constellation".

A celestial Arabic name, referring to the Pleiades, a set of stars in the Taurus constellation, English speakers may be more familiar with this name in its Persian form: Soraya. Also appearing as Suraya, Surayya, Thuraya,  Süreyya, and Thuraiya, some Islamic scholars believe that the Pleiades are the "star" that appear in <em>Sura An-Najm </em> in the Quran.

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The name Thurayya peaked for girls at #9540 in 1972.

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