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Diya

#1,714 in 2025Girls' name

Earthen lamp

Diya has been given to 5,091 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #1,714 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 309 recorded.

Babies named Diya, 2025

1 in 27,900

Diya over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Diya: meaning, origin, and history

Earthen lamp

Sanskrit

What Diya means

Diya means “earthen lamp”, associated with diyā.

Origin, language, and formation

Diya is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,079 girls were recorded with the name Diya between 1991 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 309 in 2009; its best national rank was #873 in 2004.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,450 in 2020 to #1,714 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,037 in 2015 to #1,714 in 2025.

In the United States, 12 boys were recorded with the name Diya between 2008 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2008; its best national rank was #10,143 in 2008.

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 Diya?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 27,900
119 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 13,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,714
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
19,311 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Diya 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 2025 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 19,311 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Diya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Diyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Diya was born before 2011 — so the typical Diya is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
45.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,079
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 45.5% of all recorded uses (2,313).

Is Diya 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
−38
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−264
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−677
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.46×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
38.5%
Peak was 2009 (309)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#873
2004

Spellings of Diya

Diya is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 22.1% against Diya's 0.12%.

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 Diya is used

Across 2016–2025, Diya was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 3,226 girls, against 1 in 8,373 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in 50,000).

231 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 3,226
  2. 2Washington1 in 4,762
  3. 3Illinois1 in 5,556
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in 5,556
  5. 5California1 in 5,882
  6. 6Virginia1 in 6,667
  7. 7New York1 in 7,692
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 7,692

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.

Diya around the world

Where Diya 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
    1996–2025
    #834
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2004–2025
    #539
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2008–2025
    #885
    in 2025
  • France
    2001–2025
    #2,242
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2001–2024
    #772
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2005–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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

Notable people named Diya

People whose public names include Diya, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Diya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,714
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 264
Best rank ever
#873
2004
Peak year
2009
309 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,079
Count in 2025
119

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,143
2008
Peak year
2008
7 that year
First recorded
2008
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
12
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Diya

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

NiyaKiyaRiyaMiyaSiyaLiyaJiyaMaiyaPriyaZiyaAriyaKaiyaAmiyaAsiyaTaniyaAliyaSamiyaSaniyaZaniyaNaiyaTiyaKamiyaJamiyaZakiya

Names with a curve like Diya

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Diya, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

AmiahAlyviaIzabelleNeveahSamiyahAiyannaSamiyaGracynReeceAnanyaJamiyahKaelynn

Sibling names for Diya

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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