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.
Where Arya is popular in 2022
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- New Jersey#65 · 1 in 350
- New York#75 · 1 in 440
- New Mexico#83 · 1 in 310
- California#85 · 1 in 505
- Nevada#94 · 1 in 393
Best ever in a state: #38 in District of Columbia, 2019.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | #65 | 105 | 1 in 350 |
| New York | #75 | 182 | 1 in 440 |
| New Mexico | #83 | 16 | 1 in 310 |
| California | #85 | 344 | 1 in 505 |
| Nevada | #94 | 24 | 1 in 393 |
| Massachusetts | #96 | 58 | 1 in 423 |
| Arizona | #97 | 59 | 1 in 479 |
| Texas | #97 | 290 | 1 in 561 |
| Alaska | #99 | 7 | 1 in 263 |
| Indiana | #100 | 60 | 1 in 469 |
| Florida | #101 | 161 | 1 in 535 |
| South Dakota | #105 | 9 | 1 in 288 |
| Illinois | #116 | 81 | 1 in 577 |
| Hawaii | #117 | 7 | 1 in 344 |
| Virginia | #119 | 63 | 1 in 553 |
| Kentucky | #123 | 34 | 1 in 496 |
| Georgia | #126 | 78 | 1 in 587 |
| Rhode Island | #127 | 7 | 1 in 364 |
| Maryland | #129 | 39 | 1 in 568 |
| Pennsylvania | #130 | 83 | 1 in 578 |
| Connecticut | #135 | 21 | 1 in 565 |
| South Carolina | #137 | 31 | 1 in 573 |
| Oregon | #144 | 24 | 1 in 536 |
| Tennessee | #145 | 48 | 1 in 657 |
| Colorado | #158 | 34 | 1 in 642 |
| Washington | #158 | 41 | 1 in 701 |
| North Carolina | #161 | 62 | 1 in 734 |
| Ohio | #167 | 62 | 1 in 768 |
| West Virginia | #167 | 10 | 1 in 537 |
| Utah | #169 | 24 | 1 in 672 |
| District of Columbia | #170 | 5 | 1 in 498 |
| Delaware | #173 | 5 | 1 in 476 |
| Wisconsin | #182 | 29 | 1 in 708 |
| Iowa | #184 | 18 | 1 in 644 |
| Arkansas | #190 | 15 | 1 in 695 |
| Michigan | #193 | 47 | 1 in 788 |
| Kansas | #204 | 16 | 1 in 720 |
| Oklahoma | #210 | 18 | 1 in 821 |
| New Hampshire | #215 | 5 | 1 in 711 |
| Minnesota | #230 | 24 | 1 in 911 |
| Idaho | #241 | 8 | 1 in 808 |
| Alabama | #248 | 20 | 1 in 960 |
| Nebraska | #269 | 8 | 1 in 892 |
| Louisiana | #272 | 18 | 1 in 998 |
| Missouri | #302 | 20 | 1 in 1,211 |
| Mississippi | #321 | 9 | 1 in 1,079 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 2022
Top girls' names in 2022
Top boys' names in 2022
More about 2022
girls
1,640,131 girls got a published name in 2022; 1 in 700 of them was named Arya, which outranked 99.3% of the 17,760 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 27,281 of them was named Arya, which outranked 84.4% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,217Winter65
- #2,217Younis65
- #2,217Yousif65
- #2,243Arya64
- #2,243Aycen64
- #2,243Banx64
- #2,243Caelum64
- #2,269Adriano63
- #2,269Asiel63
- #2,269Athan63
Tied with 25 names at #2,243; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.