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Uday

#8,199 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Uday has been given to 250 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #8,199 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Uday, 2025

1 in 332,000

Uday over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Uday: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Sanskrit

What Uday means

Uday is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Uday is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 250 boys were recorded with the name Uday between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2005; its best national rank was #5,851 in 2005.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,518 in 2020 to #8,199 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,494 in 2015 to #8,199 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 Uday?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,199
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Uday sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Uday. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Udays were born

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

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
34.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
250
People you could plausibly meet
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2000s — 34.0% of all recorded uses (85).

Is Uday 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
−486
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,319
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,295
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.25×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
71.4%
Peak was 2005 (14)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,851
2005

Spellings of Uday

Uday is not the most common spelling — Adam is, with 43.3% against Uday's 0.02%.

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 Uday is used

Across 1910–2025, Uday was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,743,270 across all states with data.

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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. Uday has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Uday around the world

Where Uday 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
    2001–2025
    #2,952
    in 2025
  • France
    2003–2003
    #4,133
    in 2003
  • Canada
    2004–2024
    #1,232
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #754
    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.

Uday by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,199
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,319
Best rank ever
#5,851
2005
Peak year
2005
14 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
250
Count in 2025
10

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

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Sibling names for Uday

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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