Meaning not yet researched.
Arya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,858 in 2025. Its best rank was #92 in 2019.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #92 in 2019; #158 in 2025. About 97% of babies named Arya in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#158 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2019, at #92.
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Arya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,858 girls in 2025. Peak: #92 in 2019 · most girls in one year: 3,051 (2019).
In 2025, 1,858 US girls were named Arya, making it the 158th most common girls’ name of the year, up 3 places from #161 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 1,867 girls named Arya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #92, reached in 2019. That year also had the most girls given the name: 3,051. For comparison, it was #200 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Arya in 44 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1982 with 12 babies. In all, 31,871 US babies have been given the name, 93% of them girls and 7.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 16,156 babies named Arya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 22,460 US girls were named Arya; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 3,051. In 2025 that was about 1 in 865 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Arya ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #59 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 4 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Aria (96,373 babies since 1880), Aryana (7,329 babies since 1880), Ari (28,254 babies since 1880) and Ariah (11,751 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Aury, Aryahi and Aaryah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Turkish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Aury (203), Aryahi (155), Aaryah (126), Areyah (92), Areeya (21), Airy (13), Ahryah (10), Aureya (8), Aary (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Arya in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 8 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 19 | #59 | #137 |
| Hawaii | 9 | #80 | #162 |
| Maryland | 46 | #90 | #138 |
| Florida | 172 | #96 | #172 |
| California | 275 | #106 | #184 |
| New York | 128 | #120 | #167 |
| Virginia | 60 | #122 | #180 |
| North Carolina | 78 | #127 | #362 |
| Massachusetts | 41 | #131 | #162 |
| Washington | 51 | #132 | #124 |
| Nevada | 17 | #141 | #200 |
| New Jersey | 54 | #143 | #169 |
| Texas | 214 | #148 | #239 |
| Arizona | 42 | #152 | #235 |
| West Virginia | 10 | #156 | #191 |
| Kentucky | 28 | #160 | #176 |
| Connecticut | 19 | #162 | #129 |
| North Dakota | 6 | #164 | #97 |
| Colorado | 35 | #166 | #165 |
| Delaware | 5 | #177 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 60 | #188 | #173 |
| Rhode Island | 5 | #188 | #198 |
| Oregon | 18 | #200 | #103 |
| Oklahoma | 19 | #207 | #147 |
| Georgia | 50 | #212 | #312 |
| Kansas | 15 | #215 | #207 |
| Illinois | 45 | #223 | #201 |
| Michigan | 40 | #225 | #215 |
| Missouri | 27 | #230 | #247 |
| Minnesota | 24 | #233 | #177 |
| South Carolina | 20 | #246 | #372 |
| Ohio | 43 | #259 | #218 |
| Indiana | 27 | #259 | #183 |
| Utah | 17 | #262 | #229 |
| Wisconsin | 20 | #266 | #197 |
| Louisiana | 16 | #272 | #671 |
| Mississippi | 10 | #274 | — |
| Iowa | 12 | #277 | #209 |
| Alabama | 17 | #283 | #281 |
| Tennessee | 27 | #286 | #250 |
| Nebraska | 7 | #300 | #201 |
| Idaho | 5 | #413 | #145 |
| Arkansas | 6 | #495 | #403 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,858 | #158 | 54 | #2,483 |
| 2024 | 1,867 | #161 | 58 | #2,393 |
| 2023 | 2,013 | #139 | 56 | #2,417 |
| 2022 | 2,343 | #122 | 64 | #2,243 |
| 2021 | 2,331 | #120 | 48 | #2,655 |
| 2020 | 2,374 | #113 | 44 | #2,762 |
| 2019 | 3,051 | #92 | 49 | #2,628 |
| 2018 | 2,556 | #119 | 49 | #2,582 |
| 2017 | 2,169 | #135 | 46 | #2,678 |
| 2016 | 1,898 | #169 | 54 | #2,387 |
| 2015 | 1,645 | #200 | 90 | #1,717 |
| 2014 | 1,556 | #216 | 82 | #1,813 |
| 2013 | 1,139 | #278 | 77 | #1,852 |
| 2012 | 759 | #414 | 77 | #1,883 |
| 2011 | 387 | #715 | 111 | #1,468 |
| 2010 | 273 | #942 | 88 | #1,726 |
| 2009 | 237 | #1,077 | 113 | #1,473 |
| 2008 | 205 | #1,231 | 114 | #1,445 |
| 2007 | 200 | #1,240 | 105 | #1,509 |
| 2006 | 159 | #1,424 | 106 | #1,454 |
| 2005 | 113 | #1,742 | 82 | #1,649 |
| 2004 | 120 | #1,618 | 84 | #1,566 |
| 2003 | 71 | #2,348 | 86 | #1,498 |
| 2002 | 54 | #2,786 | 79 | #1,558 |
| 2001 | 36 | #3,641 | 48 | #2,154 |
| 2000 | 34 | #3,743 | 47 | #2,141 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,220 | 31 | #2,726 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,382 | 33 | #2,557 |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,890 | 31 | #2,551 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,632 | 25 | #2,922 |
| 1995 | — | — | 30 | #2,511 |
| 1994 | — | — | 15 | #4,108 |
| 1993 | — | — | 26 | #2,702 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,585 | 29 | #2,469 |
| 1991 | — | — | 34 | #2,146 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,523 | 30 | #2,317 |
| 1989 | — | — | 30 | #2,250 |
| 1988 | 5 | #11,961 | 22 | #2,610 |
| 1987 | — | — | 22 | #2,472 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,040 | 18 | #2,787 |
| 1985 | — | — | 20 | #2,509 |
| 1984 | — | — | 9 | #4,236 |
| 1983 | — | — | 7 | #4,955 |
| 1982 | — | — | 12 | #3,503 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).