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Arshia

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Literal meaning not recorded

Arshia has been given to 485 babies in the U.S. since 1976. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2009, with 31 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 73% girls, 27% boys all-time.

Babies named Arshia, 2023

1 in 663,000

Arshia over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Arshia over time

In 2023, Arshia went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19762023

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Arshia: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Arshia means

Arshia is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Arshia is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 355 girls were recorded with the name Arshia between 1976 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 31 in 2009; its best national rank was #4,695 in 2009.

In the United States, 130 boys were recorded with the name Arshia between 1992 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2001; its best national rank was #6,042 in 2001.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Arshia?

Arshia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Arshia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arshia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arshias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Arshia was born before 2008 — so the typical Arshia is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
48.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
355
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 48.2% of all recorded uses (171).

Is Arshia rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2009 (31)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
48.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,695
2009

Spellings of Arshia

Arshia is not the most common spelling — Marsha is, with 33.5% against Arshia's 0.11%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Arshia is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Arshia was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 912,700 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Arshia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Arshia is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Arshia was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 726,363 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Arshia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Arshia around the world

Where Arshia ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2002–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    2015–2015
    #5,163
    in 2015
  • Canada
    2004–2013
    #2,840
    in 2013
  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Arshia by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,695
2009
Peak year
2009
31 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
355
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,042
2001
Peak year
2001
11 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
130
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Arshia

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Arshia

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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