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 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 796 of them was named Arya, which outranked 99.3% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 40,238 of them was named Arya, which outranked 81.3% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,637Varun47
- #2,637Zacchaeus47
- #2,637Zach47
- #2,672Arya46
- #2,672Aadi46
- #2,672Aadit46
- #2,672Adem46
- #2,715Adhvik45
- #2,715Advait45
- #2,715Akil45
Tied with 42 names at #2,672; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.