How rare is the name Priya?

11,068 people in the United States have the first name Priya, about 1 in 27,289. It ranks #2,317 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

PRIYA

#2,317

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
11,068
About
1 in 27,289
This common or more
79.4%
Who bears it

Of the 11,068 people named Priya, 76.7% reported their origin as Asian or Pacific Islander, 9.2% as two or more races and 6.6% as White. 99.3% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Priya peaked in 2014, when 211 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19692025
Peak year
2014
Births that year
211
In 2025*
99 ▼53%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 6,562 babies have been given the name since 1969. 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.

Priya by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #2,223. The largest share of babies named Priya, 41.1%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1960s#15,6378
1970s#4,022308
1980s#2,470809
1990s#2,2231,342
2000s#2,2521,745
2010s#2,5021,650
2020s#3,207700
Generation X 1965–805.6%
Millennials 1981–9625.1%
Generation Z 1997–1241.1%
2013 and later28.3%

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 Priya is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Priya has been most common in New Jersey (3.9×), New York (2.2×), and California (2×), and least common in Wisconsin (0.51×).

4,428 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.

Either side of Priya

#2,315 Ilene · 11,080#2,316 Kacie · 11,075#2,318 Ivory · 11,058#2,319 Cleo · 11,057

Spelled almost the same

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

#23,426 Pria · 418#36,519 Preya · 217

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