Aditya
Aditya was given to 83 boys in 2025, #1,886 among boys’ names; 5,405 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,330 Americans named Aditya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 12 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aditya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aditya mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Aditya is “a male given name from Sanskrit mainly used in India and Nepal.”
Borrowed from Sanskrit आदित्य (ādityá).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aditya?
#1,886 among boys’ names, 2025
Aditya fell from #1,168 in 2015 to #1,886 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 83.0 to 48.6 per million.
331 babies in 2008, the peak
Aditya peaked in 2008, when 331 boys were given it, #706 among boys’ names. The 83 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 83 | #1,886 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 69 | #2,133 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 79 | #1,953 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 75 | #2,021 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 71 | #2,059 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 93 | #1,687 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 114 | #1,494 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 142 | #1,291 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 150 | #1,219 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 157 | #1,203 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 159 | #1,168 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 190 | #1,049 | 0.10 |
| 2013 | 218 | #933 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 207 | #970 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 225 | #902 | 0.12 |
| 2010 | 262 | #818 | 0.14 |
| 2009 | 297 | #768 | 0.15 |
| 2008 | 331 | #706 | 0.16 |
| 2007 | 296 | #751 | 0.14 |
| 2006 | 247 | #823 | 0.12 |
| 2005 | 276 | #733 | 0.14 |
| 2004 | 246 | #752 | 0.12 |
| 2003 | 254 | #722 | 0.13 |
| 2002 | 191 | #865 | 0.10 |
| 2001 | 141 | #1,041 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 119 | #1,160 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 143 | #986 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 98 | #1,234 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 69 | #1,507 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 68 | #1,477 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 57 | #1,598 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 32 | #2,387 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 29 | #2,503 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 22 | #2,994 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 27 | #2,538 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 16 | #3,604 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 24 | #2,609 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 17 | #3,075 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 21 | #2,557 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 20 | #2,598 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 11 | #3,803 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 14 | #3,105 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 10 | #3,883 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,235 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 10 | #3,857 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,258 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,362 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Aditya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aditya has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 47 years of records.
Girls and boys named Aditya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aditya, and how old are they?
5,330 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,405 Americans ever recorded as Aditya. The median Aditya alive today is 18 years old; half are between 12 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 9,207 people named Aditya (58 women and girls, 9,149 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,902 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 10 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 370 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,360 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,590 |
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 Aditya born?
The states with the most babies named Aditya are California, New Jersey and New York, with 72% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 13 | #1,364 | 1.5× |
| New Jersey | 10 | #657 | 3.9× |
| New York | 10 | #1,122 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,030 | 0.4× |
| Texas | 6 | #2,288 | 0.8× |
Where Aditya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aditya is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1979 it was given 3.9 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 boys’ 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 Aditya with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 6,098 babies since 1880, Aditya is the most given (89% of them). In 2025 it was given to 83 of their 95 babies (87%), again the 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 Aditya
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 Aditya and names like it
- Compare Aditya and AadityaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAditya peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aditya since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Aditya: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Aditya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Aditya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.