Arshiya
A girls’ name of Persian origin, meaning lioness or of the Aryans; from Persian tradition.
Arshiya by the numbers
In 2025, 16 babies in England and Wales were named Arshiya. In the US, 10 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 24 babies in 2015, making it a 2010s name.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Arshiya. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Other names that mean a lion
Like Arshiya, each of these has a lion in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
Names about as common as Arshiya
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