Diya

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Diya: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Diya: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #326 in 2007, and it stood at #885 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
43times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#326highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3795
1997	#3174
1998	#3142
1999	#3900
2000	#1995
2001	#1359
2002	#750
2003	#583
2004	#439
2005	#376
2006	#365
2007	#326
2008	#368
2009	#346
2010	#361
2011	#390
2012	#374
2013	#401
2014	#396
2015	#440
2016	#573
2017	#541
2018	#745
2019	#641
2020	#720
2021	#720
2022	#762
2023	#706
2024	#767

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #767 among girls in England and Wales, #790 among girls in Scotland, #898 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #3795 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #326 among girls in England and Wales, in 2007 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #885 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Diya appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 2,011 births with the name.

Diya across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Diya's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3795 (1996)	#326 (2007)	#767 (2024)	29 of 29	2,011 (1996–2024)	136 (2007)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#750 (2008)	#582 (2009)	#885 (2025)	12 of 18	47 (2008–2025)	6 (2009)

Diya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Diya in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	14	4 of 10	4
2000s	792	10 of 10	79
2010sbusiest	954	10 of 10	95
2020s	251	5 of 10	50

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 95 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2003 and 2004, when recorded births rose by 31, from 50 to 81.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Diya appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #326 in England and Wales in 2007.

Diya's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#767	49	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#706	51	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#762	48	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#720	52	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#720	51	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#641	61	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#745	53	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#541	80	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#573	73	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#440	100	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#396	110	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#401	106	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#374	127	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#390	119	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#361	125	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#346	126	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#368	120	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#4432	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#326	136	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#365	116	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#376	107	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#439	81	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#583	50	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#750	34	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1359	14	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1995	8	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3142	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3174	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3795	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#885	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#898	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#856	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#661	5	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#834	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#716	4	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#907	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#593	6	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#582	6	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#750	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#790	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #326, first reached in 2007.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 136 births, registered in England and Wales in 2007.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2008, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Divya · #1015, 25y
Dixie · #859, 27y
Diyaan · #2403, 11y
Diyan · #878, 17y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Sammy · #326, 31y
Shelly · #326, 29y
Keir · #327, 29y
Andris · #328, 25y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Elio · #326, 25y
Ibraheem · #326, 29y
Sammy · #326, 31y
Awais · #327, 29y

Diya was ranked #326 in England and Wales · Girls in 2007. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Diya and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Diya without appearing here.

Diya moved ahead of

Francis Compare
In 2004 they stood at #3174 and #3174 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #376 and #3970.
George Compare
In 2001 they stood at #3900 and #3225 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #750 and #4137.
Teddy Compare
In 2001 they stood at #3795 and #3795 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #750 and #4137.
Evan Compare
In 2000 they stood at #3900 and #2770 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1359 and #3998.

Moved ahead of Diya

Ivy Compare
In 2011 they stood at #582 and #893 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2012 that had become #907 and #371.
Aria Compare
In 2011 they stood at #582 and #893 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2012 that had become #907 and #510.
Astrid Compare
In 2021 they stood at #661 and #764 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2022 that had become #747 and #458.
Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #641 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #720 and #460.

Moved the opposite way to Diya

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Diya went from #3795 to #767 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Diya went from #3795 to #767 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Diya went from #3795 to #767 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Diya went from #3795 to #767 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Diya

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Diya went from #3795 to #767 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Diya went from #3795 to #767 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Diya went from #3795 to #767 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Diya went from #3795 to #767 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #326 in England and Wales in 2007. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Diya

Diya at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Diya across 2 official records

Diya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Diya appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Diya

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Diya moved ahead of

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Diya at a glance

Diya across 2 official records

Diya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Diya appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Diya

Diya and the names beside it

Diya moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Diya

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