# Arya (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/arya/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Sanskrit |
| Meaning | “noble”, “respectable” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 31,871 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 2,335 / 29,536 (93% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 4,834, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

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

## What it means

Arya is grouped under noble.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 387 | 715 |
| 2012 | 759 | 414 |
| 2013 | 1,139 | 278 |
| 2014 | 1,556 | 216 |
| 2015 | 1,645 | 200 |
| 2016 | 1,898 | 169 |
| 2017 | 2,169 | 135 |
| 2018 | 2,556 | 119 |
| 2019 | 3,051 | 92 |
| 2020 | 2,374 | 113 |
| 2021 | 2,331 | 120 |
| 2022 | 2,343 | 122 |
| 2023 | 2,013 | 139 |
| 2024 | 1,867 | 161 |
| 2025 | 1,858 | 158 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 111 | 1,468 |
| 2012 | 77 | 1,883 |
| 2013 | 77 | 1,852 |
| 2014 | 82 | 1,813 |
| 2015 | 90 | 1,717 |
| 2016 | 54 | 2,387 |
| 2017 | 46 | 2,678 |
| 2018 | 49 | 2,582 |
| 2019 | 49 | 2,628 |
| 2020 | 44 | 2,762 |
| 2021 | 48 | 2,655 |
| 2022 | 64 | 2,243 |
| 2023 | 56 | 2,417 |
| 2024 | 58 | 2,393 |
| 2025 | 54 | 2,483 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 60 | 658 |
| 2012 | 104 | 437 |
| 2013 | 187 | 257 |
| 2014 | 244 | 215 |
| 2015 | 280 | 192 |
| 2016 | 302 | 180 |
| 2017 | 343 | 164 |
| 2018 | 352 | 148 |
| 2019 | 427 | 120 |
| 2020 | 371 | 134 |
| 2021 | 344 | 151 |
| 2022 | 289 | 175 |
| 2023 | 279 | 183 |
| 2024 | 265 | 184 |
| 2025 | 264 | 193 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 28 | 976 |
| 2012 | 27 | 1,021 |
| 2013 | 21 | 1,183 |
| 2014 | 26 | 1,061 |
| 2015 | 17 | 1,442 |
| 2016 | 21 | 1,271 |
| 2017 | 19 | 1,339 |
| 2018 | 16 | 1,533 |
| 2019 | 14 | 1,655 |
| 2020 | 12 | 1,825 |
| 2021 | 14 | 1,688 |
| 2022 | 14 | 1,692 |
| 2023 | 21 | 1,272 |
| 2024 | 25 | 1,132 |
| 2025 | 12 | 2,014 |

## In other languages

- Hebrew: אריה
- Hindi: आर्या
- Portuguese: Ária
- Russian: А́рия
- Turkish: Arya

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.