Kriya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- KREE-yuh
- Origin
- Sanskrit
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Kriya is a girls' name of Sanskrit origin, meaning “action, deed”. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Kriya mean?
Sanskrit: Sanskrit kriya
“action, deed”
From Sanskrit kriya, meaning action or deed; it also appears in the yoga term kriya yoga.
Is Kriya a girl's or a boy's name?
Kriya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kriya in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2023, with 7 girls.
Kriya in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 7 | #3,388 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,904 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 3 | #5,998 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 4 | #4,888 |
| 2013 | 3 | #6,003 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 6 | #3,737 |
| 2010 | 6 | #3,715 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 6 | #3,589 |
| 2007 | 5 | #3,858 |
How popular is Kriya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 14,937th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Kriya, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 15,083rd. Its busiest year was 2018, with 15 girls. It first appears in the records in 1997.
Half of all the girls named Kriya in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
Kriya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,246 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,083 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,730 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,405 |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,709 |
| 2016 | 9 | #10,855 |
| 2015 | 9 | #10,861 |
| 2014 | 9 | #10,949 |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,577 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,251 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 6 | #14,953 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,236 |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,498 |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,630 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,412 |
| 2005 | 8 | #11,828 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 5 | #15,777 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,719 |
Names like Kriya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Prisha, Priya, Krisha, Aadhya, Kavya, Arya, Saanvi, Kashvi, Navya, Viha, Aarya, Shriya
Names related to Kriya
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, “Kriya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kriya, updated 20 October 2026.