a blank 10 of an elongate cylindrical material for example a metal wire which has a circular cross section 12 approximately one third of the length of the blank 10 serve as auxiliary shank 14 the remaining part of the blank 14 forming a basic body 16 for the surgical needle 54 manufacture of the surgical needle is however also possible without an auxiliary shank the blank 10 for manufacturing surgical micro and macro needles preferably has a diameter in a range of 0 05 mm to 1 5 mm preferably in a range of 0 15 mm to 0 3 mm in a first step of manufacture of the surgical needle 54 two machine tools in the form of dies 18 which have a profiled face 20 comprising a plurality of raised square pyramids 22 are used to form two textured profile lateral face regions 24 on the blank namely in that the mutually opposite profiled faces 20 of the two dies 18 are pressed against the portion of the blank 10 that forms the basic body 16 of the needle 54 until as a result of material compression the pyramids 22 have formed pyramid like indentations 26 in the basic body 16 the pyramids 22 are separated by separating webs 28 that.