Baby name
CLASSIC
🇺🇸 🇮🇳 Aaradhya
/aa · RAAD · hyah/
Meaning
“Worship or devotion”
Sanskrit name meaning worship or devotion; one of the most popular girl names in India in the 2010s, partly driven by Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai naming her daughter Aaradhya in 2011.
Nicknames
aara
Vibe
warmelegant
How it ages.
Peaked in India around 2012-2018; still strong but the celebrity-driven surge is fading.
The cultural moment.
Dominant in India from 2012 onward, consistently in top 10 girl names through the 2010s.