Arya — #162 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Arya

The Social Security Administration has registered 27,666 babies named Arya between 1986 and 2024, spanning 39 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Arya currently holds the #162 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 3,050 babies received it in a single year. Arya is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 2,281 additional births since 1982.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Arya performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 15,429 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Arya shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 3,928 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Arya in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Arya 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 27,666 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.