Aadya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- AAD-ya
- Origin
- Sanskrit
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,460 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #1,684 for girls
Aadya is a girls' name of Sanskrit origin, meaning “first; the beginning”. In 2025 it ranked 1,460th for girls in the UK (22 babies) and 1,684th for girls in the US (122 babies).
What does Aadya mean?
Sanskrit: spelling of Adya
“first; the beginning”
From Sanskrit adya, 'first'; in Hinduism Adya Shakti, the primordial power, is a title of the goddess Devi.
Is Aadya a girl's or a boy's name?
Aadya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 22 girls in the UK and 122 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Aadya in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,460th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 22 about 1 in 13,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 15% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 22 girls in the UK were named Aadya, making it the 1,460th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,159th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 33 girls.
Half of all the girls named Aadya in the UK since 1996 were born between 2014 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 115 girls in the UK were given Aadya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #401, up from #1,460 for this spelling alone.
In 2012, 80% of the babies named Aadya in the UK were girls.
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,407th in England and Wales.
Aadya in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #1,460 |
| 2024 | 33 | #1,084 |
| 2023 | 13 | #2,185 |
| 2022 | 23 | #1,452 |
| 2021 | 16 | #1,882 |
| 2020 | 13 | #2,159 |
| 2019 | 21 | #1,531 |
| 2018 | 25 | #1,375 |
| 2017 | 15 | #2,011 |
| 2016 | 29 | #1,243 |
| 2015 | 21 | #1,581 |
| 2014 | 21 | #1,544 |
| 2013 | 29 | #1,261 |
| 2012 | 12 | #2,319 |
| 2011 | 10 | #2,582 |
| 2010 | 4 | #4,931 |
| 2009 | 3 | #5,801 |
| 2008 | 6 | #3,589 |
| 2007 | 7 | #3,060 |
How popular is Aadya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,684th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 122 about 1 in 13,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 16% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 122 girls in the US were named Aadya, making it the 1,684th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,308th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 168 girls. It first appears in the records in 2003.
Half of all the girls named Aadya in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 426 girls in the US were given Aadya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #674, up from #1,684 for this spelling alone.
Aadya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 122 | #1,684 |
| 2024 | 141 | #1,524 |
| 2023 | 124 | #1,669 |
| 2022 | 101 | #1,953 |
| 2021 | 125 | #1,667 |
| 2020 | 168 | #1,308 |
| 2019 | 154 | #1,441 |
| 2018 | 139 | #1,554 |
| 2017 | 115 | #1,804 |
| 2016 | 160 | #1,439 |
| 2015 | 159 | #1,448 |
| 2014 | 164 | #1,399 |
| 2013 | 105 | #1,900 |
| 2012 | 93 | #2,064 |
| 2011 | 48 | #3,349 |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,396 |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,676 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,347 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,729 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,123 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,325 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,617 |
| 2003 | 5 | #15,777 |
Names like Aadya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Arya, Ayra, Ayah, Raya, Ayat, Hafsa, Abeeha, Aarya, Zainab, Aiza, Aanya
Other spellings of Aadya
Names related to Aadya
More Sanskrit names
Maya, Bodhi, Lila, Arjun, Aarav, Rohan, Kali, Aryan, Opal, Arjan, Vihaan, Avyaan, Ishaan, Siya, Leena, Shivansh
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Aadya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/aadya, updated 20 October 2026.