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Very pretty! I like how it's related to stars. Interesting, but not as outright 'stars' as Stella.
But the might be some jokes about 'Soraya Sis.'

It sounds to me like someone named Aya is sore. That and psoriasis. Sorry I couldn't be more positive.

It's beautiful, but I do think of psoriasis. That spoils it for me. I grew up on commercials talking about "the heartbreak of psoriasis," so when I see Soraya, the phrase "the heartbreak of Soraya" keeps running through my mind.

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I have the same problem with Milena, in that I think of melena (dark, sticky, blood-filled feces). Once I relate a name with some icky medical problem, it's all I see.

I think it's mysterious and pretty. I really like it.

I would think it was pretty without reservations if it didn't sound so much like the beginning of psoriasis.

I think it is a very beautiful name, but all I can think of is "The Stoning of Soraya M" that I watched with my friend a couple of years ago. It was THE most brutal movie I've ever seen, and I haven't been able to get it out of my head ever since.

My grandma had a samoyed named Soraya back in the 80s, so I have a vague fondness for it.

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It was semi-popular in Australia in the late 80s and mid 90s. I met quite a few girls named Soraya, enough that there were variants like Saraya flapping around. Most were not girls with Middle Eastern backgrounds, and the usual pronunciation was sǝ-RAY-ǝ.

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I don't like it enough to use it, but I do like it.

I like it but prefer it mispronounced, that is "so-RAY-uh" (because I think it's correctly pronounced "so-RYE-uh," right?)

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so-RAY-uh is warm and red and fuzzy, so-RYE-uh is dry and itchy (see: psoriasis)

It's nice! I slightly prefer the spelling Suraya, I guess because the suggestion of "sore" bothers me a little. But it's a pretty name, yeah.