Priyanka
Priyanka was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,514 among girls’ names; 1,790 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,760 Americans named Priyanka and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 19 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Priyanka by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Priyanka mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Priyanka is “a female given name from Hindi.”
From Hindi प्रियंका (priyaṅkā).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Priyanka?
#14,514 among girls’ names, 2025
Priyanka fell from #4,690 in 2015 to #14,514 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 16.8 to 3.7 per million.
84 babies in 1998, the peak
Priyanka peaked in 1998, when 84 girls were given it, #1,838 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,514 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,416 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,382 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,409 | 7.9 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,931 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,804 | 13.0 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,638 | 10.7 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,956 | 12.3 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,230 | 11.6 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,249 | 14.7 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #4,690 | 16.8 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,388 | 11.2 |
| 2013 | 30 | #4,729 | 17.1 |
| 2012 | 35 | #4,271 | 19.9 |
| 2011 | 28 | #5,026 | 15.9 |
| 2010 | 38 | #4,013 | 21.4 |
| 2009 | 30 | #4,906 | 16.3 |
| 2008 | 45 | #3,632 | 23.8 |
| 2007 | 60 | #2,984 | 31.2 |
| 2006 | 60 | #2,908 | 31.6 |
| 2005 | 73 | #2,426 | 39.5 |
| 2004 | 49 | #3,159 | 26.7 |
| 2003 | 65 | #2,514 | 35.6 |
| 2002 | 68 | #2,367 | 37.8 |
| 2001 | 84 | #2,025 | 46.7 |
| 2000 | 58 | #2,586 | 31.9 |
| 1999 | 68 | #2,214 | 38.3 |
| 1998 | 84 | #1,838 | 47.5 |
| 1997 | 83 | #1,810 | 47.7 |
| 1996 | 83 | #1,785 | 47.3 |
| 1995 | 70 | #1,969 | 39.8 |
| 1994 | 78 | #1,830 | 43.7 |
| 1993 | 72 | #1,958 | 39.8 |
| 1992 | 65 | #2,092 | 35.3 |
| 1991 | 61 | #2,177 | 32.5 |
| 1990 | 40 | #2,877 | 21.1 |
| 1989 | 33 | #3,228 | 17.9 |
| 1988 | 25 | #3,769 | 14.0 |
| 1987 | 23 | #3,829 | 13.2 |
| 1986 | 23 | #3,728 | 13.4 |
| 1985 | 26 | #3,385 | 15.1 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,169 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,116 | 5.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Priyanka a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Priyanka has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Priyanka: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Priyanka, and how old are they?
1,760 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,790 Americans ever recorded as Priyanka. The median Priyanka alive today is 26 years old; half are between 19 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 7,849 people named Priyanka (7,838 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,697 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.6 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 605 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 917 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 241 |
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 Priyanka born?
The states with the most babies named Priyanka are California, New York and New Jersey, with 81% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 277 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 175 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| New Jersey | 164 | not ranked | 3.1× |
| Texas | 51 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 48 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Virginia | 15 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Massachusetts | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Maryland | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Priyanka is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Priyanka is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1983 it was given 3.1 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 Priyanka with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Priyanka
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 Priyanka and names like it
- Compare Priyanka and AshlenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sPriyanka peaked in 1998.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Priyanka since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Priyanka.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Priyanka alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with PMost given first.