Diya
Diya reached its high-water mark in 2009 at number 887, and has been recorded 5,091 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,710th. About 5,100 Diyas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 14.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Diya boys named Diya
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 5,091
- Estimated living today
- 5,100
- Median age today
- 14
- Peak year
- 2009
- Best rank
- 887th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,710th
- First recorded
- 1991
- Girls / boys
- 5,079 / 12
How old the living Diyas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 5,091 babies given the name since 1991, about 5,100 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 3,700 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2011 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Sanskrit
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Diyas
- Diya Siddique (born 2004)Bangladeshi archer (* 2004)
People named Diya with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Diya is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Diya is most concentrated in New Jersey (4.5×), California (2.1×), Washington (1.9×), Virginia (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2009
The most popular girls’ names the year Diya peaked:
Diya elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Diya | 2,054 | 326th |
| France girls | Diya | 205 | 2,242nd |
| Switzerland girls | Diya | 56 | 603rd |
| France boys | Diya | 55 | 6,296th |
| Ireland girls | Diya | 47 | 582nd |
| Scotland girls | Diya | 32 | 579th |
| Belgium girls | Diya | 5 | 1,336th |
| England and Wales boys | Diya | 3 | 4,432nd |
| Poland girls | Diya | 2 birth registrations | 658th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Diya: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Diya | 45 | 0.004% | 475th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Diya | 11 | 0.003% | 656th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Diya by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 6 | 420th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Diya among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Diya | 16 | 21 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.