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Arya

Girls' name · Current · Sanskrit origin

Living in the US
~31,700 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#158 among girls
Births in 2025
1,912 31,871 since 1880
Typical age
6 years, median

Arya popularity over time

Arya rank by birth year, 1986–2025Arya ranked #10,912 in 1986 and #158 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #92, in 2019.#100#1,000#10,000#158best #92 in 20191990200020102020
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1986–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

2019 is the peak year for Arya, with 3,100 births. The name does not appear in the data until 1982. It reaches the top 1,000 in 16 years of the record.

As of 2025 the name sits at #158, with 1,912 births that year.

Babies named Arya per yearPeaks at 3,100 births in 2019.3,100 in 201901990200020102020
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Arya?

About 31,700 people named Arya are alive in the United States today. SSA has recorded 31,871 births under the name since 1880. The split is about 29,400 women and 2,300 men.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Arya?

Median age among living Aryas: 6. The 2010s produced the largest surviving cohort. By the site’s era rules that makes Arya a current name.

Your Arya

Ages of living people named AryaHalf of living Aryas are older than 6 and half younger.median 602040
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Arya is most common

The name is concentrated in Hawaii, at 2.2× the national rate. Rhode Island, Alaska and New Mexico follow.

Where Arya is used more than average5 states use the name Arya more than the national average.Alaska: 2.0× the national rateAKMaine: not over-representedMEVermont: not over-representedVTNew Hampshire: not over-representedNHWashington: not over-representedWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: not over-representedMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: not over-representedNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: not over-representedNVWyoming: not over-representedWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: not over-representedPANew Jersey: 1.7× the national rateNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: 2.0× the national rateRICalifornia: not over-representedCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: not over-representedDEMassachusetts: not over-representedMAArizona: not over-representedAZNew Mexico: 1.9× the national rateNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: not over-representedDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: 2.2× the national rateHITexas: not over-representedTXFlorida: not over-representedFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Arya is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
Hawaii 88 2.2×
Rhode Island 81 2.0×
Alaska 60 2.0×
New Mexico 160 1.9×
New Jersey 840 1.7×

Is Arya a boy's or a girl's name?

93% girls7% boys
Share of all recorded US births under this name, 1880 to the latest year.

Across the whole record, 92.7% of births under the name were girls. The name has changed sides: it began mostly on one sex and ends mostly on the other.

Arya in England and Wales

ONS recorded 276 births named Arya in 2025, ranking it #193. That is 28% lower than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Arya comes from

Borrowed from Sanskrit आर्य (“noble, respectable”). Doublet of Aryan, Iran.

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

See how Sanskrit names are used in American and British births on the Sanskrit names page.

Names similar to Arya

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

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