Names by region

South Asian names

509 names across 9 traditions. Every name links to its own page: meaning, origin and, where the records allow it, a century of popularity.

Part ofAsian names

Bengali, Indian, Malayalam, Nepali, Punjabi, Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu names, each language in its own collection with the meaning and origin of every name. Indian names also show up in the England and Wales record today, and that list is one link away.

Most given in the United States, 2020 to 2025

1Maya24,115 births
2Amara13,171 births
3Alina12,138 births
4Amaya10,744 births
5Muhammad7,462 births
6Ali6,820 births
7Fatima5,437 births
8Anaya4,822 births
9Maryam4,304 births
10Zain3,145 births
11Arjun3,058 births
12Myra2,971 births
13Aleena2,749 births
14Ira2,731 births
15Aarav2,445 births
16Ahmed2,425 births
17Ila2,407 births
18Anika1,895 births
19Abdullah1,818 births
20Rohan1,808 births

The names on this page that appear in Social Security records, ranked by births in 2020 to 2025. Names the records do not publish (spellings given to fewer than five babies a year) cannot appear here.