Given name
Dhairya
“patience”
Dhairya is a masculine given name from Hindi, meaning “patience.”
Original Hindiधैर्य
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2008. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Dhairya through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 130
- 130 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2014
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 11
- #7,308 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 11 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 7,308 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 13 in 2014.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Dhairya’s family of names
In English usage, Dhairya has a conventional equivalent in the Hindi form धैर्य. In Hindi usage, Dhairya is a Roman-alphabet rendering of धैर्य. In English usage, Dhairya was borrowed from the Hindi form धैर्य.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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