Priya
Just 81 women in Poland carry Priya, and no newborn girls were given it last year: most people here will never meet one. The name is Hebrew, with the sense of one who is loved.
Priya Pronunciation
Priya is pronounced PRYIH-ah (/ˈprjɨa/).
What Priya means
Where Priya comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Priya means beloved. The grounding places its root in Hebrew, and hands the same sense to Polish: ukochana. No diminutive trails after it, no cross-gender twin. Four letters, and the meaning sits right on the surface.
Picture the name on a school register in Wrocław. Priya keeps its shape while the Zofias and Kacpers take their Polish endings around it. Nothing declines. A teacher reading the list meets a word for beloved and moves to the next child.
Poland's imieniny calendar has no day marked for Priya. A family carrying it often settles on a nearby date and treats that as the name-day. The word underneath stays fixed: a Hebrew root, and in either language it says beloved, ukochana.
How many people are named Priya
1 in 278319 women in Poland is named Priya. 81 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3946 among female names.
Priya as a middle name
Priya is a first name for 81 women in Poland and a middle name for another 31, a 72/28 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1270th, between Małgorzta (31) and Santana (31).
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#1268 Lourdes31
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#1269 Małgorzta31
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#1270 Priya31
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#1271 Santana31
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#1272 Selin31