Arshia — unisex name

What the Data Says About Arshia

The Social Security Administration has registered 355 babies named Arshia between 1976 and 2023, spanning 48 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Arshia currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2009, when 31 babies received it in a single year. Arshia is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 130 additional births since 1992.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Arshia performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 171 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Arshia shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 26 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Arshia in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Arshia in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 355 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.