Priya
Priya is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 108 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1080.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 2014211 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1969
- 6,461people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,461 girls have been named Priya in the United States since 1969, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2014, with 211 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2004, and the 2000s alone account for 27%.
By decade
In 2014, its biggest year
Priya was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2014 were Emma, Olivia, Sophia, Isabella and Ava. See all of 2014.
Names that rose and fell with Priya
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lamiapeak 2004
- Dashapeak 1995
- Janaipeak 2006
- Tessapeak 2007
- Autumnpeak 1998
- Veronikapeak 2007
- Talyapeak 2014
- Keilapeak 2006
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.