Diya
Diya is a girl name of Sanskrit origin, meaning Lamp, light.
What Diya means
Lamp, light.
Diya is short — 4 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Diya 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.
Diya is recorded as Sanskrit in origin. Browse other Sanskrit names.
How popular is Diya?
Diya does not currently chart in the top 100 girl names. Rankings move constantly, and names can spend decades out of the lists before returning — so this says more about the present moment than about the name itself.
The character of Diya
We group Diya under light and brightness. If that is the quality drawing you to it, the theme link below collects every other name we hold in the same group.
Themes: Light
Names like Diya
These share Diya's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Aahana — First rays of the morning sun.
- Gauri — Fair; the goddess Parvati.
- Indira — Beauty; splendour.
- Aarush — First ray of the sun.
- Aditya — The sun.
- Arjun — Bright, shining, white.
- Ishaan — The sun; Lord Shiva.
- Kiran — A ray of light.
- Reyansh — Ray of light.
- Tejas — Brilliance; radiance.
- Vihaan — Dawn; new beginning.
- Daisy — The day's-eye flower.