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Priyanka

#14,514 in 2025Girls' name

Agreeable, amiable

Priyanka has been given to 1,790 babies in the U.S. since 1983. In 2025 it ranked #14,514 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1998, with 84 recorded.

Babies named Priyanka, 2025

1 in 553,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Priyanka: meaning, origin, and history

Agreeable, amiable

Hindi

What Priyanka means

Priyanka means “agreeable, amiable”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Priyanka is used in Hindi, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Bengali.

Origin, language, and formation

Priyanka is used in English. Its origins include Hindi.

Priyanka comes through Hindi प्रियंका.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,790 girls were recorded with the name Priyanka between 1983 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 84 in 1998; its best national rank was #1,785 in 1996.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,804 in 2020 to #14,514 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,690 in 2015 to #14,514 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Priyanka?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,514
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Priyanka 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Priyanka. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Priyankas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Priyanka was born before 2000 — so the typical Priyanka is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
39.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
49.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,790
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 39.3% of all recorded uses (704).

Is Priyanka 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
−5,098
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−8,710
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−9,824
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.20×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
7.1%
Peak was 1998 (84)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,785
1996

Spellings of Priyanka

Priyanka is not the most common spelling — Ariyana is, with 35.5% against Priyanka's 18.7%.

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 Priyanka is used

Across 1910–2025, Priyanka was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 100,020 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 25,000
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 100,000
  4. 4New York1 in 100,000
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in —
  7. 7Maryland1 in —
  8. 8Ohio1 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. Priyanka has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Priyanka around the world

Where Priyanka 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
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    1991–2025
    #6,983
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2020
    #2,355
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1972–2008
    #796
    in 2008

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.

Priyanka by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,514
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 8,710
Best rank ever
#1,785
1996
Peak year
1998
84 that year
First recorded
1983
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,790
Count in 2025
6

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Sibling names for Priyanka

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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