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Aryah

Gender
Girl
Say it
AR-ya
Origin
Sanskrit
UK rank, 2025
#5,990 for girls
US rank, 2025
#1,733 for girls

Aryah is a girls' name of Sanskrit origin. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies) and 1,733rd for girls in the US (117 babies).

Where does Aryah come from?

Sanskrit: spelling of Arya, or possibly of Aria

Is Aryah a girl's or a boy's name?

Aryah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK and 117 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Aryah in the UK?

Rank in 2025
5,990th among girls
Babies in 2025
3 about 1 in 93,000 girls
Five-year trend
Falling down 50% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Aryah, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,630th. Its busiest year was 2019, with 10 girls.

Half of all the girls named Aryah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2018 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 291 girls in the UK were given Aryah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #205, up from #5,990 for this spelling alone.

Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.

2015Busiest: 10 in 20192025
Aryah in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20253#5,990
20243#5,966
20236#3,766
20227#3,347
20215#4,148
20206#3,630
201910#2,590
20188#3,068
20174#4,967
20161#7,664
20151#7,629

How popular is Aryah in the US?

Rank in 2025
1,733rd among girls
Babies in 2025
117 about 1 in 14,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steady down 16% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 117 girls in the US were named Aryah, making it the 1,733rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,448th. Its busiest year was 2019, with 161 girls. It first appears in the records in 1998.

It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Aryah than any year since 2015.

Half of all the girls named Aryah in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 2,011 girls in the US were given Aryah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #179, up from #1,733 for this spelling alone.

1998Busiest: 161 in 20192025
Aryah in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
2025117#1,733
2024120#1,698
2023140#1,524
2022155#1,443
2021145#1,476
2020149#1,448
2019161#1,392
2018138#1,568
2017135#1,607
2016131#1,649
2015105#1,919
201473#2,469
201384#2,211
201258#2,934
201164#2,724
201065#2,726
200952#3,188
200839#4,005
200746#3,530
200638#3,918
200535#4,025
200421#5,740
200329#4,413
200225#4,763
200114#7,311
200018#5,932
199911#8,216
199812#7,527

Names like Aryah

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Aryah

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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, “Aryah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/aryah, updated 20 October 2026.