Diya
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A small bowl-shaped oil lamp, usually made from clay, with a cotton wick dipped in ghee or vegetable oil, often used on religious occasions
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/diːjə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Diya is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 70K(measured from records)
- SYSyria≈1 in 8.1K
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 14K
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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 203 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Syria, 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)
A small bowl-shaped oil lamp, usually made from clay, with a cotton wick dipped in ghee or vegetable oil, often used on religious occasions.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Diya 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Diya | 23 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈8,600 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Diya | 21 |
| US United States | 4,752 | 1 in 70K | 4.7K | Diya | 203 |
| SY Syria | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | — | Diya | 7 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 160K | listed | Diya | 34 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Diya | 23 |
| NL Netherlands | 460 | 1 in 38K | 446 | Diya | 7 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)
Diya 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.
Light.
as a nameThe African book of names
In mew, indicates that something is visible to both the speaker and the hearer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sne, tortoise (land-dwelling reptile)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Bambara, pleasant, nice
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In alj, earth; soil
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)
- Zia Atabayb. 1942USnot in their usual nameIranian-American musician and activist
- Zia Shahidb. 1945PKnot in their usual namePakistani journalist (1945 - 2021)
- Diya Kumarib. 1971INIndian politician
- Diya Limb. 1973CACanadian author of Mauritian origin
- Diya Beeltahb. 1989MUMiss Mauritius 2012
- Diya Siddiqueb. 2004BDBangladeshi archer (* 2004)
- Diya Kitturb. 2004CACanadian actress
- Diya Mary Cherianb. 2009badminton player
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 54 sources across 30 countries.
Reference works 5
- 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
- Is Diya a male or female name?
- Diya is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What does the name Diya mean, and where does it come from?
- A small bowl-shaped oil lamp, usually made from clay, with a cotton wick dipped in ghee or vegetable oil, often used on religious occasions. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Diya?
- In the etymology graph, Ziya and Zia are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Diya?
- A machine transcription gives /diːjə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Diya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Diya in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled diya.
- How common is the name Diya?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,752 people named Diya in 2020, about 1 in 70 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/diyaThe 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, “Diya”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.