girls:
4.8k births since 1991
#2443 (57th percentile)
boys:
12 births since 2008
#4574 (0th percentile)
overall:
4.8k births since 1991
#3918 (49th percentile)
The name Diya is the #3,918 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,848 recorded births since 1991. This represents the 49.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 49.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,443 (57.3% percentile) for all time with 4,836 births since 1991. For boys, it ranks #4,574 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 12 births since 2008.
Diya first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1991 (1991 for girls and 2008 for boys). Birth data for Diya is available in 31 out of the 33 years between 1991 and 2023 (31 years for girls and 2 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Diya has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Diya reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 31.0% percentile (ranked #662) with 153 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 153 births per million (ranked 31.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2012, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Diya ranks #833 for girls (12.1% percentile) with 68 births per million, which is 44.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Diya reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #905) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2008, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2009.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Diya".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Diya. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 57.9% confident that Diya is pronounced as DEE-uh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DEE-yuh, at 42.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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