Diya (दिया) is the Sanskrit and Hindi word for the small clay lamp used in Hindu rituals — particularly at Diwali, the festival of lights, when millions of diyas are lit across South Asia and the diaspora.
Diya is among the most popular girl names in modern India and the South Asian diaspora. It has begun appearing in Western records as families of Indian heritage carry the name with them. Two syllables, three letters, and a meaning that lights up every home where Diwali is celebrated.
Diya does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Diya reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.