Diya
#1,710 for girls in 2025, 119 births · Last seen for boys in 2009 at #12,491
Given to girls 99.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2004 · 281 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,079since 1991
Diya over time
Rank among girls' names. Diya has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,710 | 119 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,676 | 122 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,699 | 121 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,573 | 135 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,487 | 143 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,448 | 149 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,383 | 162 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,223 | 191 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,108 | 227 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,074 | 243 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,036 | 257 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,173 | 209 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,152 | 208 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,018 | 248 | — | |
| 2011 | #905 | 288 | — | |
| 2010 | #925 | 280 | — | |
| 2009 | #887 | 309 | #12,491 | 5 |
| 2008 | #1,002 | 264 | #9,871 | 7 |
| 2007 | #991 | 269 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,090 | 232 | — | |
| 2005 | #958 | 257 | — | |
| 2004 | #873 | 281 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,416 | 140 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,915 | 92 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,740 | 54 | — | |
| 2000 | #5,937 | 18 | — | |
| 1999 | #6,836 | 14 | — | |
| 1998 | #7,532 | 12 | — | |
| 1997 | #7,283 | 12 | — | |
| 1996 | #10,567 | 7 | — | |
| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 | — | |
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| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | — | |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Diya! It came in at #13,147, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1991–1994, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Diya
- 34 spots since 2024 (#1,676 → #1,710)
- 262 spots since 2020 (#1,448 → #1,710)
- 674 spots since 2015 (#1,036 → #1,710)
- Biggest jump: 543 spots in 2004 (#1,416 → #873)
- Biggest drop: 132 spots in 2006 (#958 → #1,090)
- Debuted 1991
- Peaked 2004 at #873 (281 births)
- Births halved by 2022, 18 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 2009–2011
- Highest: 1 in 5,945 girls born in 2009 were named Diya (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 13,506 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #873 in 2004, was only 1 in 6,535 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 45.5% of all girls named Diya (2,313) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 61 | #6,836 (1999) | #10,066 |
| 2000s | 1,916 | #873 (2004) | #1,781 |
| 2010s | 2,313 | #905 (2011) | #1,100 |
| 2020s | 789 | #1,448 (2020) | #1,599 |
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.
Diya in 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
Top boys' names in 2008
More about 2008
girls
1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 7,163 of them was named Diya, which outranked 95.1% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
2,040,150 boys got a published name in 2008; 1 in 291,450 of them was named Diya, which outranked 32.5% of the 14,625 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #9,019Zykel8
- #9,019Zylon8
- #9,019Zyrion8
- #9,871Diya7
- #9,871Abdishakur7
- #9,871Abdulhadi7
- #9,871Abdulkarim7
- #11,037Aadam6
- #11,037Aariv6
- #11,037Aaroosh6
Tied with 1,165 names at #9,871; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.