Aditya
Aditya is a boy name of Sanskrit origin, meaning The sun.
What Aditya means
The sun.
Aditya sits at 6 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Aditya comes from
Sanskrit names draw on a devotional and literary tradition thousands of years old. Many are epithets of deities or qualities from classical texts, which is why their meanings tend to be abstract virtues rather than objects.
Aditya is recorded as Sanskrit in origin. Browse other Sanskrit names.
How popular is Aditya?
You will not find Aditya in the top 100 boy names at the moment. Plenty of well-known names sit outside the charts; popularity measures how often a name is registered, not how good or how real it is.
The character of Aditya
We group Aditya under light and brightness, Sky and the stars and sky — an unusual pairing, and often the reason a name feels the way it does. Each theme opens a full list of names sharing it.
Names like Aditya
These share Aditya's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Helios — The sun.
- Aarush — First ray of the sun.
- Apollo — God of light, music and the sun.
- Haruto — Sun flying; soaring.
- Aurora — Dawn; goddess of sunrise.
- Elio — The sun.
- Hyperion — The high one; a Titan of light.
- Icarus — Follower; one who flew to the sun.
- Phoebus — Radiant and shining.
- Sorin — Sun.
- Uriel — God is my light.
- Sora — Sky.