Smaya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- SMY-a
- Origin
- Sanskrit
- US rank, 2025
- #7,489 for girls
Smaya is a girls' name of Sanskrit origin. In 2025 it ranked 7,489th for girls in the US (14 babies).
Where does Smaya come from?
Sanskrit: possibly Sanskrit smaya, related to smi 'to smile'
Is Smaya a girl's or a boy's name?
Smaya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 14 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Smaya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 7,489th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 14 about 1 in 110,000 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, 14 girls in the US were named Smaya, making it the 7,489th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,964th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 16 girls. It first appears in the records in 2012.
Half of all the girls named Smaya in the US since 1880 were born between 2017 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Smaya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,489 |
| 2024 | 16 | #6,928 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,481 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,377 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,019 |
| 2020 | 13 | #7,964 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,592 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,612 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,438 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,109 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 8 | #11,925 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 5 | #16,863 |
Names like Smaya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Siya, Aadhya, Zaya, Raya, Safa, Sama, Adhara, Arya, Salem, Samadhi, Samaya, Aarya
Names related to Smaya
More Sanskrit names
Maya, Bodhi, Lila, Arjun, Aarav, Rohan, Kali, Aryan, Opal, Arjan, Vihaan, Avyaan, Ishaan, Leena, Shivansh, Veer
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, “Smaya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/smaya, updated 20 October 2026.