first name
DIYA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 4,752 people named Diya, 89.8% reported their origin as Asian or Pacific Islander, 3.6% as White and 3% as two or more races. 97.9% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Diya peaked in 2009, when 314 babies got the name.
At least 5,091 babies have been given the name since 1991. 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.
Diya by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2010s, when it ranked #1,992. The largest share of babies named Diya, 54.6%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.
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 Diya is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Diya has been most common in New Jersey (4.5×), California (2.1×), and Washington (1.9×), and least common in Minnesota (0.52×).
4,139 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.
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