Arya
Arya was given to 1,858 girls in 2025, #158 among girls’ names; 31,871 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 31,600 Americans named Arya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 11.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Arya mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Arya is “a female given name from Sanskrit.” Its etymology gives the sense “noble, respectable” (आर्य).
Also “a male given name from Sanskrit.”
Borrowed from Sanskrit आर्य (ā́rya, “noble, respectable”). Doublet of Aryan and Iran.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Arya?
#158 among girls’ names, 2025
Arya rose from #200 in 2015 to #158 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.92 to 1.2 per 1,000.
3,100 babies in 2019, the peak
Arya peaked in 2019, when 3,100 babies were given it (3,051 girls, #92 among girls’ names). The 1,912 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 62% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,858 | #158 | 1.2 |
| 2024 | 1,867 | #161 | 1.2 |
| 2023 | 2,013 | #139 | 1.3 |
| 2022 | 2,343 | #122 | 1.4 |
| 2021 | 2,331 | #120 | 1.4 |
| 2020 | 2,374 | #113 | 1.5 |
| 2019 | 3,051 | #92 | 1.8 |
| 2018 | 2,556 | #119 | 1.5 |
| 2017 | 2,169 | #135 | 1.3 |
| 2016 | 1,898 | #169 | 1.1 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,645 | #200 | 0.92 |
| 2014 | 1,556 | #216 | 0.87 |
| 2013 | 1,139 | #278 | 0.65 |
| 2012 | 759 | #414 | 0.43 |
| 2011 | 387 | #715 | 0.22 |
| 2010 | 273 | #942 | 0.15 |
| 2009 | 237 | #1,077 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 205 | #1,231 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 200 | #1,240 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 159 | #1,424 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 113 | #1,741 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 120 | #1,617 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 71 | #2,345 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 54 | #2,782 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 36 | #3,637 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 34 | #3,738 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,214 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,379 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,885 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,627 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,578 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,517 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 5 | #11,954 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,035 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Arya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 31,871 Americans recorded as Arya, 93% are girls and 7% boys. Girls have outnumbered boys among babies named Arya every year since 2004. In 2025 it went to 1,858 girls and 54 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Arya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arya, and how old are they?
31,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 31,871 Americans ever recorded as Arya. The median Arya alive today is 7 years old; half are between 4 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 17,881 people named Arya (15,639 women and girls, 2,242 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 19,237 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 347 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,900 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 27,400 |
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 Arya born?
The states with the most babies named Arya are California, Texas and Florida, with 36% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 292 | #106 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 214 | #148 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 172 | #96 | 1.1× |
| New York | 137 | #120 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 78 | #127 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 60 | #188 | 0.8× |
| Virginia | 60 | #122 | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 54 | #143 | 1.3× |
| Washington | 51 | #132 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 50 | #212 | 0.8× |
Where Arya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Arya is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1982 it was given 1.3 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 Arya 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 175,145 babies since 1880, Arya is the second most given (18% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,912 of their 10,373 babies (18%), again the second 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 Arya
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 Arya and names like it
- Compare Arya and AriaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sArya peaked in 2019.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arya since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Arya: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Arya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Arya alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.