Adhya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- AAD-ya
- Origin
- Sanskrit
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,344 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #5,409 for girls
Adhya is a girls' name of Sanskrit origin, meaning “first; the beginning”. In 2025 it ranked 2,344th for girls in the UK (12 babies) and 5,409th for girls in the US (23 babies).
What does Adhya mean?
Sanskrit: spelling of Aadhya, itself a spelling of Adya
“first; the beginning”
From Sanskrit adya, 'first'; in Hinduism Adya Shakti, the primordial power, is a title of the goddess Devi.
Meaning borrowed from Aadhya. More on Wiktionary.
Is Adhya a girl's or a boy's name?
Adhya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the UK and 23 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Adhya in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #2,344among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 12about 1 in 23,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fastup 100% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 12 girls in the UK were named Adhya, making it the 2,344th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,744th.
2025 had the most girls named Adhya of any year since it first appeared, in 2009.
Half of all the girls named Adhya in the UK since 1996 were born between 2015 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 115 girls in the UK were given Adhya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #401, up from #2,344 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 2,276th in England and Wales.
Adhya in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #2,344 |
| 2024 | 7 | #3,381 |
| 2023 | 5 | #4,251 |
| 2022 | 9 | #2,805 |
| 2021 | 5 | #4,148 |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,904 |
| 2018 | 4 | #4,914 |
| 2017 | 5 | #4,250 |
| 2016 | 6 | #3,788 |
| 2015 | 10 | #2,629 |
| 2014 | 5 | #4,187 |
| 2013 | 3 | #6,003 |
| 2012 | 5 | #4,390 |
| 2011 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 3 | #5,801 |
How popular is Adhya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,409among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 23about 1 in 70,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadydown 17% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 23 girls in the US were named Adhya, making it the 5,409th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,483rd. Its busiest year was 2018, with 56 girls. It first appears in the records in 2001.
2025 had fewer girls named Adhya than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Adhya in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 426 girls in the US were given Adhya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #674, up from #5,409 for this spelling alone.
Adhya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,409 |
| 2024 | 44 | #3,516 |
| 2023 | 29 | #4,652 |
| 2022 | 35 | #4,106 |
| 2021 | 29 | #4,603 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,483 |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,922 |
| 2018 | 56 | #2,927 |
| 2017 | 32 | #4,383 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,422 |
| 2015 | 36 | #4,068 |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,023 |
| 2013 | 44 | #3,511 |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,396 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,356 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,380 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,338 |
| 2008 | 13 | #8,961 |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,630 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,147 |
| 2005 | 8 | #11,828 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,837 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,345 |
Names like Adhya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Arya Aarya Aavya Navya Prisha Kavya Anvika Aaradhya Viha Anvi Aanya Saanvi
Other spellings of Adhya
Names related to Adhya
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, “Adhya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/adhya, updated 20 October 2026.