Dhiya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- DEE-ya
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,409 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #8,360 for girls
Dhiya is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “light; radiance”. In 2025 it ranked 3,409th for girls in the UK (7 babies) and 8,360th for girls in the US (12 babies).
What does Dhiya mean?
Arabic: Arabic Diya'; also close to Hindi diya 'lamp'
“light; radiance”
Is Dhiya a girl's or a boy's name?
Dhiya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the UK and 12 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Dhiya in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,409th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 40,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 4% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the UK were named Dhiya, making it the 3,409th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,744th. Its busiest year was 2016, with 15 girls.
Half of all the girls named Dhiya in the UK since 1996 were born between 2011 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 66 girls in the UK were given Dhiya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #592, up from #3,409 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,332nd in England and Wales.
Dhiya in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #3,409 |
| 2024 | 10 | #2,644 |
| 2023 | 9 | #2,841 |
| 2022 | 7 | #3,347 |
| 2021 | 10 | #2,658 |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 11 | #2,420 |
| 2018 | 10 | #2,631 |
| 2017 | 10 | #2,652 |
| 2016 | 15 | #2,015 |
| 2015 | 14 | #2,085 |
| 2014 | 9 | #2,809 |
| 2013 | 9 | #2,796 |
| 2012 | 11 | #2,463 |
| 2011 | 11 | #2,393 |
| 2010 | 11 | #2,379 |
| 2009 | 11 | #2,298 |
| 2008 | 8 | #2,895 |
| 2007 | 5 | #3,858 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 4 | #4,150 |
| 2004 | 5 | #3,356 |
| 2003 | 3 | #4,560 |
How popular is Dhiya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,360th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 12 about 1 in 130,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 52% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 12 girls in the US were named Dhiya, making it the 8,360th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,625th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 22 girls. It first appears in the records in 2008.
Half of all the girls named Dhiya in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 138 girls in the US were given Dhiya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,355, up from #8,360 for this spelling alone.
Dhiya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,360 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,551 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,050 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,459 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,625 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,608 |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,615 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,772 |
| 2016 | 21 | #5,983 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,443 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,300 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,575 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,251 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,719 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,240 |
| 2009 | 13 | #8,884 |
| 2008 | 13 | #8,961 |
Names like Dhiya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Prisha, Saanvi, Aavya, Dhanvi, Aadhya, Dhriti, Anvika, Anvi, Priya, Viha, Aarvi, Arya
Other spellings of Dhiya
Names related to Dhiya
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra
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, “Dhiya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/dhiya, updated 20 October 2026.