Arya
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Namnet Arya kan ha en indo-iransk rot och betyda ’ädel’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɑɹjə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Arya is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 47K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 334K
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 6.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 246 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.7K (inferred from the name graph)
28,068 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Namnet Arya kan ha en indo-iransk rot och betyda ’ädel’. En kvinnlig gestalt (Arya Stark) i den populära bok- och tv-serien Game of Thrones bär namnet, något som kan ha influerat de nyaste namngivarna.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Arya counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #596 | 28,068 | 1 in 47K | 28K | Arya | 246 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | — | Arya | 7 |
| CN China | — | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 291K | — | Arya | 9 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 144K | — | Arya | 12 |
| US United States | — | 996 | 1 in 334K | 16K | Arya | 241 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Arya | 9 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 122K | 28 | Arya | 74 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Arya | 24 |
28,068 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Arya is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Annapiirna (५); Durga (N); Ganga (N); Laksmi
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Indra (V); Skanda (N)
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
feminine of अर्य
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
In Kurdish, Noble, aristocratic
as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary
In Filipino, aria (a musical piece written typically for a solo voice with orchestral accompaniment in an opera or cantata)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Neera Aryab. 1902INOfficer in the Indian National Army (1902–1998)
- Yashpal Aryab. 1952INIndian politician
- Anita Aryab. 1963INIndian politician
- Chandra Aryab. 1963CACanadian politician
- Darius Aryab. 1971USAmerican anthropologist and archaeologist
- Shraddha Aryab. 1987INIndian actress
- Ritu Aryab. 1988GBBritish actress
- Aditi Aryab. 1994INIndian model
- Sagar Aryaactor
- Nikhil AryaINIndian television actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 95 sources across 49 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 16K | #1,719 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.2K | #1,719 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 1.9K | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 227 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 54 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 28 | #136 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 17 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2021 | 1 | #2,059 |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Arya?
- A machine transcription gives /ɑɹjə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Arya mean?
- Recorded meaning: Namnet Arya kan ha en indo-iransk rot och betyda ’ädel’.
- In which country does Arya have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 28 thousand people named Arya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arya.
- How common is the name Arya?
- In India, the national register counted 28,068 people named Arya, about 1 in 47 thousand residents.
- How common is Arya compared with other names?
- In India, Arya is the 596th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aryaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Arya” — the 596th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.