Varenya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- vah-REN-yah
- Origin
- Sanskrit
- US rank, 2025
- #7,131 for girls
Varenya is a girls' name of Sanskrit origin, meaning “most excellent, worthy of choice”. In 2025 it ranked 7,131st for girls in the US (15 babies).
What does Varenya mean?
Sanskrit: Sanskrit word
“most excellent, worthy of choice”
From Sanskrit varenya 'most excellent', a word that appears in the Gayatri Mantra.
Is Varenya a girl's or a boy's name?
Varenya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 15 girls and 6 boys in the US.
How popular is Varenya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #7,131among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 15about 1 in 110,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 15 girls in the US were named Varenya, making it the 7,131st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,964th. It first appears in the records in 2006. 6 boys were also named Varenya in 2025 (10,690th for boys).
It has been given to more girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had the most girls named Varenya of any year since it first appeared, in 2006.
Half of all the girls named Varenya in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Varenya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,131 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,590 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,481 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,586 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,459 |
| 2020 | 13 | #7,964 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,106 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,685 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,326 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 5 | #16,507 |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,577 |
| 2012 | 6 | #14,956 |
| 2011 | 5 | #16,756 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,288 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,147 |
Names like Varenya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aadhya Arya Adhara Viha Aarya Vanya Aavya Aaradhya Varnika Navya Anvika Vihana
Names related to Varenya
More Sanskrit names
Maya Bodhi Lila Arjun Aarav Rohan Kali Aryan Opal Arjan Vihaan Avyaan Ishaan Siya Leena Shivansh
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, “Varenya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/varenya, updated 20 October 2026.