Priya
Priya was given to 99 girls in 2025, #1,956 among girls’ names; 6,562 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,460 Americans named Priya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 12 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Priya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Priya mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Priya is “a female given name from India. A common Hindu female name which means beloved. It is usually used in conjunction with another name, mostly those of gods to imply “beloved of ________”.”
From Sanskrit प्रिया (priyā). Doublet of Frigg (and variants).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Priya?
#1,956 among girls’ names, 2025
Priya fell from #1,384 in 2015 to #1,956 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 95.8 to 61.6 per million.
211 babies in 2014, the peak
Priya peaked in 2014, when 211 girls were given it, #1,169 among girls’ names. The 99 births of 2025 are 47% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 99 | #1,956 | 0.06 |
| 2024 | 109 | #1,849 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 124 | #1,680 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 123 | #1,705 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 121 | #1,717 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 124 | #1,665 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 131 | #1,626 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 130 | #1,638 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 141 | #1,560 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 165 | #1,410 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 171 | #1,384 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 211 | #1,169 | 0.12 |
| 2013 | 205 | #1,177 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 181 | #1,306 | 0.10 |
| 2011 | 150 | #1,496 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 165 | #1,399 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 149 | #1,527 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 194 | #1,285 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 176 | #1,380 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 180 | #1,305 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 171 | #1,304 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 162 | #1,322 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 188 | #1,152 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 167 | #1,211 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 192 | #1,106 | 0.11 |
| 2000 | 166 | #1,200 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 162 | #1,193 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 154 | #1,202 | 0.09 |
| 1997 | 142 | #1,257 | 0.08 |
| 1996 | 160 | #1,135 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 143 | #1,205 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 116 | #1,396 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 106 | #1,500 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 136 | #1,260 | 0.07 |
| 1991 | 127 | #1,309 | 0.07 |
| 1990 | 96 | #1,578 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 103 | #1,439 | 0.06 |
| 1988 | 100 | #1,402 | 0.06 |
| 1987 | 96 | #1,401 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 99 | #1,336 | 0.06 |
| 1985 | 81 | #1,516 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 77 | #1,495 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 66 | #1,686 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 75 | #1,580 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 63 | #1,781 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 49 | #2,116 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 68 | #1,656 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 37 | #2,419 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 34 | #2,544 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 25 | #2,980 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 36 | #2,313 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 41 | #2,052 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,592 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,249 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 15 | #4,075 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,188 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,837 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Priya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Priya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 57 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Priya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Priya, and how old are they?
6,460 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 6,562 Americans ever recorded as Priya. The median Priya alive today is 22 years old; half are between 12 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 11,068 people named Priya (10,993 women and girls, 75 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,816 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 | 345 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,600 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,670 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,840 |
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 Priya born?
The states with the most babies named Priya are Texas, California and New York, with 52% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 9 | #2,349 | 0.6× |
| California | 8 | #2,440 | 1.0× |
| New York | 6 | #2,017 | 1.8× |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,149 | 0.5× |
| Maryland | 5 | #963 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,727 | 0.4× |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #895 | 0.4× |
Where Priya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Priya is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1969 it was given 2.5 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 Priya 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 7,079 babies since 1880, Priya is the most given (93% of them). In 2025 it was given to 99 of their 99 babies (100%), 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 Priya
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 Priya and names like it
- Compare Priya and PriaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sPriya peaked in 2014.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Priya since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Priya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Priya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with PMost given first.