Former figure ⛸ skater Surya Bonaly is back in the news again, being applauded as the first 🥇Olympic skater to land a backflip on one blade (aka the "Bonaly flip") in the 1998 Winter Olympics (whilst Ilia Malinin is being praised for performing the same backflips in the 2026 Winter Olympics) — so I will be discussing her first name: 📛Surya
Surya is surprisingly a masculine name, "occasionally used for boys in 2024" 📛Nameberry🍒 says, describing it as a "graceful Indian choice that may 🔊sound feminine to the Western ear but is in fact the name of a male god." Surya means "sun" 
in Sanskrit and is the name of the Vedic Hindu god of the sun who rides a chariot across the sky.
Surya however, "peaked for girls at #4822" in 1994 — interestingly before Bonaly's rise in '98.
Bonaly was born in 
France, but in 
America, Surya is popular ("used as a boy's name 74% of the time" though) in 📍Delaware & 📍California.
I like the name 📛Surya — but when used for a 💗girl's name more because it does look and sound (I can't stop pronouncing it as: Su-rye-ah 🤷🏾♀️) fit for a female.
📌STATS ON THE NAME 📛Surya:
https://www.mynamestats.com/
☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Surya: 👍 OR 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗/10
