Aarya
Aarya was given to 178 girls in 2025, #1,258 among girls’ names; 3,669 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,640 Americans named Aarya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 5 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aarya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Aarya?
#1,258 among girls’ names, 2025
Aarya rose from #1,317 in 2015 to #1,258 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.10 to 0.11 per 1,000.
270 babies in 2020, the peak
Aarya peaked in 2020, when 270 babies were given it (256 girls, #994 among girls’ names). The 192 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 71% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 178 | #1,258 | 14 | #6,140 |
| 2024 | 206 | #1,165 | 10 | #7,762 |
| 2023 | 237 | #1,055 | 13 | #6,515 |
| 2022 | 214 | #1,138 | 12 | #6,826 |
| 2021 | 255 | #1,002 | 11 | #7,087 |
| 2020 | 256 | #994 | 14 | #5,978 |
| 2019 | 191 | #1,229 | 12 | #6,775 |
| 2018 | 214 | #1,141 | 10 | #7,618 |
| 2017 | 197 | #1,217 | 5 | #12,251 |
| 2016 | 189 | #1,278 | 18 | #5,121 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 180 | #1,317 | 20 | #4,709 |
| 2014 | 178 | #1,326 | 21 | #4,535 |
| 2013 | 166 | #1,391 | 22 | #4,311 |
| 2012 | 123 | #1,699 | 15 | #5,715 |
| 2011 | 108 | #1,857 | 15 | #5,670 |
| 2010 | 72 | #2,538 | 26 | #3,893 |
| 2009 | 70 | #2,613 | 23 | #4,279 |
| 2008 | 59 | #2,956 | 16 | #5,484 |
| 2007 | 60 | #2,964 | 19 | #4,806 |
| 2006 | 28 | #4,952 | 26 | #3,781 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,795 | 26 | #3,613 |
| 2004 | 26 | #4,945 | 20 | #4,259 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,577 | 14 | #5,266 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,276 | 10 | #6,517 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,055 | 5 | #10,552 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,150 | 5 | #10,344 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Aarya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,669 Americans recorded as Aarya, 89% are girls and 11% boys. In 2025 it went to 178 girls and 14 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Aarya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aarya, and how old are they?
3,640 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,669 Americans ever recorded as Aarya. The median Aarya alive today is 8 years old; half are between 5 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 2,258 people named Aarya (1,878 women and girls, 380 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,302 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 818 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,830 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Aarya born?
The states with the most babies named Aarya are Texas, California and New York, with 50% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 31 | #917 | 0.9× |
| California | 22 | #1,149 | 1.1× |
| New York | 14 | #1,028 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 11 | #1,243 | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 10 | #718 | 2.8× |
| North Carolina | 10 | #905 | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 9 | #927 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 9 | #959 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,075 | 1.1× |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,039 | 1.0× |
Where Aarya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aarya is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 2000 it was given 2.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Aarya with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Aarya?
Aarya is a less common spelling of Aria: SSA has recorded 3,669 Aarya and 96,373 Aria since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 155,679 babies since 1880, Aarya is the seventh most given (2.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 192 of their 9,641 babies (2.0%), again the seventh most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Aarya
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Aarya and names like it
- Compare Aarya and AriaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAarya peaked in 2020.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aarya since 1910.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Aarya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Aarya alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.