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How popular is the name Diya?
Births per year, rank history and how many Diyas are alive today.
Diya (female) is an uncommon girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 834th in 2025 with 43 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2007, when 136 babies were given the name, the 326th most popular that year. It has declined since 2007; the 2025 figure is roughly 32% of its peak. Numbers have been stable in recent years. Diya is one spelling of a name also recorded as Dia; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Diya you are most likely to meet is around 15 years old. Half of all Diyas born in England and Wales are between 9 and 19, and there are at least 2,300 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Diya - on average, only one in every 137 such rooms contains a Diya.
How many babies are named Diya each year?
Includes all spellings: Diya, Dia. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Diya spelling rank?
Where does the Dia spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Diya most popular?
Diya peaked in 2007, when 143 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Diya?
At least 2,300 people named Diya in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Diya?
Most living Diyas are between 9 and 19; the most common age is about 15.
Is Diya becoming more or less popular?
Well past its peak: today's figures are a fraction of the 2007 peak, though numbers have levelled off in recent years.