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Iya

#7,637 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Iya has been given to 412 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #7,637 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Iya, 2025

1 in 237,000

Iya over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Iya: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Iya means

Iya is a given name.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 412 girls were recorded with the name Iya between 1991 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 2015; its best national rank was #5,727 in 2015.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,742 in 2020 to #7,637 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,727 in 2015 to #7,637 in 2025.

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.

How common is Iya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 115,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,637
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Iya 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Iya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Iyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Iya was born before 2014 — so the typical Iya is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
36.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
412
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 36.7% of all recorded uses (151).

Is Iya 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
−1,384
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−895
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,910
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.61×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
60.9%
Peak was 2015 (23)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,727
2015

Iya around the world

Where Iya 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
    2009–2021
    #3,519
    in 2021
  • France
    2014–2025
    #6,650
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2018–2018
    #3,384
    in 2018

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Iya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,637
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 895
Best rank ever
#5,727
2015
Peak year
2015
23 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
412
Count in 2025
14

Names similar to Iya

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

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Sibling names for Iya

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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