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Urja

Girls' name

Power, energy

Urja has been given to 51 babies in the U.S. since 2000. 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 2020, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Urja, 2022

1 in 677,000

Urja over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Urja: meaning, origin, and history

Power, energy

Sanskrit

What Urja means

Urja means “power, energy”, associated with ūrjā.

Origin, language, and formation

Urja is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Urja comes through Sanskrit ऊर्जा.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 51 girls were recorded with the name Urja between 2000 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2020; its best national rank was #11,017 in 2020.

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 Urja?

Urja had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Urja 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 2022 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Urja. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Urjas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Urja was born before 2005 — so the typical Urja is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
72.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
51
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 72.5% of all recorded uses (37).

Is Urja 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2020 (9)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#11,017
2020

Spellings of Urja

Urja is not the most common spelling — Aria is, with 21.8% against Urja's 0.01%.

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.

Urja around the world

Where Urja 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
    1999–2017
    #5,765
    in 2017

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Urja 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
#11,017
2020
Peak year
2020
9 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
51
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Urja

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

IrjaNirjaTarjaMarjaJorja

Sibling names for Urja

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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