Priya — #1852 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Priya

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,461 babies named Priya between 1969 and 2024, spanning 56 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Priya currently holds the #1852 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 211 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Priya performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 1,745 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Priya shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 878 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and New Jersey. In total, SSA state-level files list Priya in 29 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Priya 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 6,461 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.