Arya

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Arya boys named Arya

Girls and boys called Arya

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Arya crossed from boys to girls in 2004, and has stayed there for 22 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 98% girls, which is roughly where it still is.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 37 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births

31,871

Estimated living today

32,000

Median age today

6

Peak year

2019

Best rank

92nd

Rank in 2025

158th

First recorded

1982

Girls / boys

29,536 / 2,335

How old the living Aryas are

born that year still alive today

Of the 31,871 babies given the name since 1982, about 32,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 30,000 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2019 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Sanskrit

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Where Arya is most common

• CA4,885
• TX3,028
• NY2,165
• FL2,055
• NJ1,215
• IL1,186
• PA1,002
• OH854
• GA848
• VA835

Relative to how many babies each state records, Arya is most concentrated in Nevada (2.6×), Florida (2.0×), Arizona (1.9×), Alaska (1.7×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2019

The most popular girls’ names the year Arya peaked:

• Olivia
• Emma
• Ava
• Sophia
• Isabella
• Charlotte

All the names of 2019

Arya elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Arya: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Arya is most concentrated in Basel-Stadt, where 0.08% of children were given it – 29 of them.

Arya: rank by region

In 2025, Arya was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.

In 2023, Arya was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

In 2025, Arya was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Arya appears in the lists for Province of Luxembourg (35th), Province of Walloon Brabant (42nd), Province of Liège (55th), Province of Namur (60th), Province of Hainaut (90th), Province of East Flanders (123rd), Province of Flemish Brabant (147th), Brussels-Capital Region (159th) and Province of Antwerp (326th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Arya by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Arya among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Arya lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 2,022 women called Arya were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 47 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 5 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Aryanna
• Aryan
• Aryana
• Aryeh
• Aryn
• Aryah
• Ary
• Aryia
• Aryiah
• Aryssa
• Aryel
• Aryonna

Arya against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Arya vs Aria
• Arya vs Aryanna
• Arya vs Aryan
• Arya vs Aryana
• Arya vs Aryeh
• Arya vs Aryn

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