Behind the Name: Comments for the name Priya

Comments for PRIYA:

Pronounced pree-yuh.

-- Elea 7/1/2006

I have a friend named Priya. It's a pretty name, but people tend to mispronounce it a lot. The most popular butchering being "pry-uh".

-- Anonymous User 7/11/2006

Judging from my school, Priya must be a very common name in India.

-- Anonymous User 1/6/2007

Priya was on MTV's TV show Sweet Sixteen.

-- bibi66 1/13/2007

I have a good friend named Priya. It's a very pretty name, but no one ever seems to know how to pronounce it. We (her friends and I) tell people that it rhymes with "chia", as in "chia pet".

-- out of the sky 9/1/2007

My favourite Indian name - a good choice in an English-speaking country too, it just seems to make more sense to an English ear than some other ones. Sounds quite cosmopolitan really! The meaning is lovely too - sweet.

-- aquamarina 2/27/2008

Incredibly popular name in India and in Indian communities.

-- lala 7/2/2008

So pretty and delicate!

-- Paris44 9/2/2008

I love this name. I feel it is unfortunate that the pronunciation will probably remind a lot of people of Prius.

-- Jamesina 6/16/2010

Priya was the name of a character on Joss Whedon's TV Show 'Dollhouse'.

-- triangle_47 4/16/2011

This was the name of Raj's sister and Leonard's girlfriend on The Big Bang Theory.

-- Bazinga 12/28/2011

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