Nameling

Namya

Gender
Girl
Say it
NUM-ya
Origin
Sanskrit
US rank, 2025
#11,928 for girls

Namya is a girls' name of Sanskrit origin, meaning “worthy of honour”. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).

What does Namya mean?

Sanskrit: from Sanskrit namya

“worthy of honour”

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

Namya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Namya in the US?

Rank in 2025
#11,928among girls
Babies in 2025
7about 1 in 230,000 girls
Five-year trend
Falling fastdown 71% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Namya, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,401st. Its busiest year was 2019, with 25 girls. It first appears in the records in 2000.

Half of all the girls named Namya in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.

2000Busiest: 25 in 20192025
Namya in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20257#11,928
20245#15,288
20235#15,188
20226#13,586
202111#8,973
202012#8,401
201925#5,161
201822#5,615
201717#6,804
201611#9,408
20156#14,477
20149#10,949
201314#8,131
201212#9,105
201121#6,145
201020#6,380
200911#9,971
200815#8,105
200719#6,808
200614#8,234
200512#8,878
200413#8,254
200319#6,050
200212#8,274
20017#12,049
20007#11,794

Names like Namya

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

Names related to Namya

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Sources

Figures from 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, “Namya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/namya, updated 20 October 2026.