Arshia
Arshia was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 485 Americans have been recorded with it between 1976 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arshia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Arshia mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Arshia is “a unisex given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Arshia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,461, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
38 babies in 2009, the peak
Arshia peaked in 2009, when 38 babies were given it (31 girls, #4,695 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #15,461 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 8 | #9,042 | |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,659 | 5 | #12,305 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,016 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,644 | 5 | #12,308 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,045 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,434 | under 5 | |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,154 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,692 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,759 | 5 | #12,306 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 12 | #9,170 | 7 | #9,782 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,834 | 6 | #10,912 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,622 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,695 | 7 | #9,941 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,147 | 5 | #12,697 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,126 | 10 | #7,633 |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,832 | 8 | #8,783 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,381 | 8 | #8,352 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,583 | 7 | #8,995 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,107 | 7 | #8,718 |
| 2002 | under 5 | 11 | #6,114 | |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,244 | 11 | #6,042 |
| 2000 | 9 | #9,968 | 9 | #6,878 |
| 1999 | under 5 | 6 | #8,782 | |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,349 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,613 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,466 | 5 | #8,513 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,628 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,387 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,295 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,377 | under 5 |
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 Arshia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 485 Americans recorded as Arshia, 73% are girls and 27% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Arshia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arshia, and how old are they?
An estimated 479 Americans named Arshia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 14 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 975 people named Arshia (645 women and girls, 330 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 457 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,525 babies since 1880, Arshia is the third most given (19% of them). In 2025 none of their 81 babies recorded by SSA was a Arshia (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Arshia
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 Arshia and names like it
- Compare Arshia and ArishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sArshia peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arshia since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Arshia.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Arshia alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.