Aarya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- AAR-ya
- Origin
- Sanskrit
- UK rank, 2025
- #723 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #1,258 for girls
Aarya is a girls' name of Sanskrit origin, meaning “noble, honourable”. In 2025 it ranked 723rd for girls in the UK (56 babies) and 1,258th for girls in the US (178 babies).
What does Aarya mean?
Sanskrit: spelling of Arya
“noble, honourable”
From Sanskrit arya, 'noble', which shares an ancient root with the country name Iran.
Is Aarya a girl's or a boy's name?
Aarya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 56 girls in the UK and 178 girls and 14 boys in the US.
How popular is Aarya in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #723among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 56about 1 in 5,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadydown 10% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 56 girls in the UK were named Aarya, making it the 723rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 544th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 81 girls.
Half of all the girls named Aarya in the UK since 1996 were born between 2014 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Girls were 55% of the babies named Aarya in the UK in 2006, and 90% in 2024.
Among girls in 2025, it was 667th in England and Wales.
Aarya in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56 | #723 |
| 2024 | 44 | #887 |
| 2023 | 65 | #623 |
| 2022 | 78 | #547 |
| 2021 | 71 | #596 |
| 2020 | 81 | #544 |
| 2019 | 46 | #862 |
| 2018 | 56 | #762 |
| 2017 | 59 | #746 |
| 2016 | 74 | #619 |
| 2015 | 74 | #624 |
| 2014 | 54 | #779 |
| 2013 | 42 | #949 |
| 2012 | 53 | #799 |
| 2011 | 30 | #1,190 |
| 2010 | 18 | #1,694 |
| 2009 | 15 | #1,848 |
| 2008 | 12 | #2,156 |
| 2007 | 5 | #3,858 |
| 2006 | 6 | #3,280 |
| 2005 | 4 | #4,150 |
| 2004 | 6 | #2,957 |
| 2003 | 3 | #4,560 |
How popular is Aarya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #1,258among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 178about 1 in 9,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadydown 6% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 178 girls in the US were named Aarya, making it the 1,258th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 994th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 256 girls. It first appears in the records in 2000. 14 boys were also named Aarya in 2025 (6,140th for boys).
2025 had fewer girls named Aarya than any year since 2014.
Half of all the girls named Aarya in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Girls were 57% of the babies named Aarya in the US in 2004, and 93% in 2025.
Aarya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 178 | #1,258 |
| 2024 | 206 | #1,165 |
| 2023 | 237 | #1,055 |
| 2022 | 214 | #1,138 |
| 2021 | 255 | #1,002 |
| 2020 | 256 | #994 |
| 2019 | 191 | #1,229 |
| 2018 | 214 | #1,141 |
| 2017 | 197 | #1,217 |
| 2016 | 189 | #1,278 |
| 2015 | 180 | #1,317 |
| 2014 | 178 | #1,326 |
| 2013 | 166 | #1,391 |
| 2012 | 123 | #1,698 |
| 2011 | 108 | #1,857 |
| 2010 | 72 | #2,538 |
| 2009 | 70 | #2,613 |
| 2008 | 59 | #2,956 |
| 2007 | 60 | #2,964 |
| 2006 | 28 | #4,952 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,795 |
| 2004 | 26 | #4,945 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,575 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,274 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,049 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,147 |
Names like Aarya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aadhya Arya Prisha Aavya Navya Aanya Anvika Saanvi Aaradhya Anvi Kavya Aarvi
Names related to Aarya
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, “Aarya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/aarya, updated 20 October 2026.