Aditya

Where Aditya comes from

Borrowed from Sanskrit आदित्य (ādityá).
— Wiktionary's entry for Aditya
  • Nepal
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1971
    Aditya Chopra born
    Indian film director and producer
  2. 1979
    First appearance
    #5,355 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1985
    Aditya Roy Kapur born
    Indian actor
  4. 2008
    Peak, #706
    331 babies named Aditya — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2015
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,168.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Sanskrit mainly used in India and Nepal.
Namesakes
  • Aditya Roy Kapur · Indian actor, born 1985
  • Aditya Chopra · Indian film director and producer, born 1971
  • Aditya Dhar · Indian director, born 1983
  • Aditya Seal · Indian actor, born 1988
  • Aditya Shrivastava · Indian actor, born 1968

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.