Priya
#1,942 for girls in 2025, 99 births
- Peak · girls
- 2001 · 192 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,562since 1969
Priya over time
Rank among girls' names. Priya has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,942 | 99 |
| 2024 | #1,840 | 109 |
| 2023 | #1,669 | 124 |
| 2022 | #1,692 | 123 |
| 2021 | #1,710 | 121 |
| 2020 | #1,654 | 124 |
| 2019 | #1,614 | 131 |
| 2018 | #1,633 | 130 |
| 2017 | #1,552 | 141 |
| 2016 | #1,406 | 165 |
| 2015 | #1,382 | 171 |
| 2014 | #1,164 | 211 |
| 2013 | #1,171 | 205 |
| 2012 | #1,302 | 181 |
| 2011 | #1,490 | 150 |
| 2010 | #1,392 | 165 |
| 2009 | #1,521 | 149 |
| 2008 | #1,281 | 194 |
| 2007 | #1,370 | 176 |
| 2006 | #1,299 | 180 |
| 2005 | #1,301 | 171 |
| 2004 | #1,314 | 162 |
| 2003 | #1,149 | 188 |
| 2002 | #1,209 | 167 |
| 2001 | #1,102 | 192 |
| 2000 | #1,199 | 166 |
| 1999 | #1,191 | 162 |
| 1998 | #1,202 | 154 |
| 1997 | #1,249 | 142 |
| 1996 | #1,133 | 160 |
| 1995 | #1,197 | 143 |
| 1994 | #1,394 | 116 |
| 1993 | #1,495 | 106 |
| 1992 | #1,260 | 136 |
| 1991 | #1,306 | 127 |
| 1990 | #1,578 | 96 |
| 1989 | #1,435 | 103 |
| 1988 | #1,400 | 100 |
| 1987 | #1,398 | 96 |
| 1986 | #1,327 | 99 |
| 1985 | #1,505 | 81 |
| 1984 | #1,490 | 77 |
| 1983 | #1,665 | 66 |
| 1982 | #1,566 | 75 |
| 1981 | #1,767 | 63 |
| 1980 | #2,096 | 49 |
| 1979 | #1,645 | 68 |
| 1978 | #2,390 | 37 |
| 1977 | #2,515 | 34 |
| 1976 | #2,932 | 25 |
| 1975 | #2,278 | 36 |
| 1974 | #2,029 | 41 |
| 1973 | #3,481 | 18 |
| 1972 | #3,177 | 20 |
| 1971 | #3,943 | 15 |
| 1970 | #4,038 | 14 |
| 1969 | #5,456 | 8 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Priya! It came in at #5,456, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1969, when fewer than 9 girls a year got the name.
Where Priya is popular in 2008
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#583 · 1 in 3,022
- New York#585 · 1 in 3,082
- Minnesota#585 · 1 in 3,220
- Massachusetts#730 · 1 in 4,537
- Wisconsin#859 · 1 in 5,010
Best ever in a state: #269 in New Jersey, 1999.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | #583 | 13 | 1 in 3,022 |
| Minnesota | #585 | 8 | 1 in 3,220 |
| New York | #585 | 31 | 1 in 3,082 |
| Massachusetts | #730 | 6 | 1 in 4,537 |
| Wisconsin | #859 | 5 | 1 in 5,010 |
| Maryland | #898 | 5 | 1 in 5,055 |
| Indiana | #914 | 6 | 1 in 5,418 |
| Illinois | #932 | 12 | 1 in 5,519 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,091 | 7 | 1 in 7,906 |
| Washington | #1,093 | 5 | 1 in 6,429 |
| Virginia | #1,188 | 5 | 1 in 7,524 |
| Michigan | #1,255 | 5 | 1 in 8,892 |
| California | #1,374 | 22 | 1 in 10,425 |
| Ohio | #1,415 | 5 | 1 in 11,278 |
| Texas | #1,530 | 15 | 1 in 11,181 |
| Florida | #1,643 | 7 | 1 in 12,297 |
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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 Priya
- 102 spots since 2024 (#1,840 → #1,942)
- 288 spots since 2020 (#1,654 → #1,942)
- 560 spots since 2015 (#1,382 → #1,942)
- Debuted 1969
- Peaked 2001 at #1,102 (192 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 8,466 girls born in 2014 were named Priya (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 16,235 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,102 in 2001, was only 1 in 9,378 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 26.6% of all girls named Priya (1,745) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 8 | #5,456 (1969) | #5,456 |
| 1970s | 308 | #1,645 (1979) | #2,843 |
| 1980s | 809 | #1,327 (1986) | #1,565 |
| 1990s | 1,342 | #1,133 (1996) | #1,301 |
| 2000s | 1,745 | #1,102 (2001) | #1,275 |
| 2010s | 1,650 | #1,164 (2014) | #1,411 |
| 2020s | 700 | #1,654 (2020) | #1,751 |
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.
Priya in 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
More about 2008
girls
1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 9,747 of them was named Priya, which outranked 93.7% 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).
- #1,274Nelly195
- #1,274Samaria195
- #1,274Samaya195
- #1,281Priya194
- #1,281Blair194
- #1,281Jaclyn194
- #1,281Kacie194
- #1,286Alysa193
- #1,286Bryleigh193
- #1,286Constance193
Tied with 4 names at #1,281; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.