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Priya

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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
Babies named Priya, by year of birthgirls
06312518825018801900192019401960198020002020

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

Decadegirls named Priya
1960s8
1970s308
1980s808
1990s1,342
2000s1,745
2010s1,650
2020s600

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.

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.