How rare is the name Arya?

17,881 people in the United States have the first name Arya, about 1 in 16,891. It ranks #1,719 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

ARYA

#1,719

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
17,881
About
1 in 16,891
This common or more
76.6%
Who bears it

Of the 17,881 people named Arya, 40.5% reported their origin as White, 26% as Asian or Pacific Islander and 17.8% as Hispanic or Latino. 87.5% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Arya peaked in 2019, when 3,100 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19822025
Peak year
2019
Births that year
3,100
In 2025*
1,912 ▼38%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 31,871 babies have been given the name since 1982. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Arya by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2020s, when it ranked #313. The largest share of babies named Arya, 86.5%, were born in 2013 or later.

1980s#7,681150
1990s#5,311362
2000s#1,9912,093
2010s#44116,156
2020s#31313,110
Millennials 1981–961.1%
Generation Z 1997–1212.4%
2013 and later86.5%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Arya is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Arya has been most common in Nevada (2.6×), Florida (2×), and Arizona (1.9×), and least common in Mississippi (0.3×).

29,885 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Arya

1 other first name also has 17,881 people.

#1,719 Vince · 17,881

Either side of Arya

#1,716 Madalyn · 17,973#1,718 Minh · 17,886#1,719 Vince · 17,881#1,721 Hubert · 17,834

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Arya, most common first.

#856 Aria · 53,360#4,503 Ara · 4,113#4,907 Ariya · 3,639#6,251 Araya · 2,582#8,341 Arwa · 1,743#11,002 Aryah · 1,184#12,425 Ary · 1,002#23,114 Arye · 426

Also a last name

As a last name, Arya ranks #18,478 of 156,621, with 1,479 people. See Arya as a last name

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