Arya
#158 for girls in 2025, 1,858 births · #2,480 for boys in 2025, 54 births
Given to girls 92.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2019 · 3,051 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- 1 yrof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 29,536since 1986
Arya over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #158 | 1,858 | #2,480 | 54 |
| 2024 | #161 | 1,867 | #2,393 | 58 |
| 2023 | #139 | 2,013 | #2,416 | 56 |
| 2022 | #122 | 2,343 | #2,243 | 64 |
| 2021 | #120 | 2,331 | #2,652 | 48 |
| 2020 | #113 | 2,374 | #2,759 | 44 |
| 2019 | #92 | 3,051 | #2,626 | 49 |
| 2018 | #119 | 2,556 | #2,579 | 49 |
| 2017 | #135 | 2,169 | #2,672 | 46 |
| 2016 | #169 | 1,898 | #2,387 | 54 |
| 2015 | #200 | 1,645 | #1,717 | 90 |
| 2014 | #216 | 1,556 | #1,812 | 82 |
| 2013 | #278 | 1,139 | #1,851 | 77 |
| 2012 | #414 | 759 | #1,882 | 77 |
| 2011 | #715 | 387 | #1,468 | 111 |
| 2010 | #942 | 273 | #1,725 | 88 |
| 2009 | #1,077 | 237 | #1,472 | 113 |
| 2008 | #1,231 | 205 | #1,445 | 114 |
| 2007 | #1,239 | 200 | #1,509 | 105 |
| 2006 | #1,424 | 159 | #1,454 | 106 |
| 2005 | #1,741 | 113 | #1,648 | 82 |
| 2004 | #1,614 | 120 | #1,565 | 84 |
| 2003 | #2,346 | 71 | #1,497 | 86 |
| 2002 | #2,780 | 54 | #1,557 | 79 |
| 2001 | #3,631 | 36 | #2,151 | 48 |
| 2000 | #3,738 | 34 | #2,136 | 47 |
| 1999 | #6,191 | 16 | #2,722 | 31 |
| 1998 | #4,366 | 25 | #2,552 | 33 |
| 1997 | #6,844 | 13 | #2,546 | 31 |
| 1996 | #7,574 | 11 | #2,911 | 25 |
| 1995 | — | #2,500 | 30 | |
| 1994 | — | #4,094 | 15 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,697 | 26 | |
| 1992 | #10,479 | 7 | #2,467 | 29 |
| 1991 | — | #2,143 | 34 | |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 | #2,308 | 30 |
| 1989 | — | #2,245 | 30 | |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | #2,599 | 22 |
| 1987 | — | #2,468 | 22 | |
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 | #2,779 | 18 |
| 1985 | — | #2,504 | 20 | |
| 1984 | — | #4,215 | 9 | |
| 1983 | — | #4,907 | 7 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,482 | 12 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Arya! It came in at #10,912, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1986–1989, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Arya
- 3 spots since 2024 (#161 → #158)
- 45 spots since 2020 (#113 → #158)
- 42 spots since 2015 (#200 → #158)
- Biggest jump: 301 spots in 2012 (#715 → #414)
- Biggest drop: 22 spots in 2024 (#139 → #161)
- Debuted 1986
- Peaked 2019 at #92 (3,051 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 1 yr · 2019
- Top 1,000: 16 yrs · run 2010–2025
- Highest: 1 in 550 girls born in 2019 were named Arya (0.18%)
- Latest: 1 in 865 girls born in 2025 (0.12%)
- 52.3% of all girls named Arya (15,433) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2003, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 10 | #10,912 (1986) | #11,355 |
| 1990s | 78 | #4,366 (1998) | #7,811 |
| 2000s | 1,229 | #1,077 (2009) | #2,082 |
| 2010s | 15,433 | #92 (2019) | #328 |
| 2020s | 12,786 | #113 (2020) | #136 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Arya in 2014
Top girls' names in 2014
Top boys' names in 2014
More about 2014
girls
1,786,355 girls got a published name in 2014; 1 in 1,148 of them was named Arya, which outranked 98.9% of the 19,232 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- ↑ 3,632Aranza#4,243 → #611
- ↑ 576Montserrat#1,148 → #572
- ↑ 573Monserrat#1,165 → #592
- ↑ 463Maisie#1,116 → #653
- ↑ 419Ariadne#1,220 → #801
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,920,871 boys got a published name in 2014; 1 in 23,425 of them was named Arya, which outranked 87.1% of the 14,081 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,794Lars83
- #1,794Oswaldo83
- #1,794Stuart83
- #1,812Arya82
- #1,812Amauri82
- #1,812Blayne82
- #1,812Brantly82
- #1,828Arnold81
- #1,828Avian81
- #1,828Chayce81
Tied with 15 names at #1,812; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.