Meaning not yet researched.
Aaniyah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 15 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,939 in 2006.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,939 in 2006; #7,135 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Aaniyah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,135 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2006, at #1,939.
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Aaniyah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 15 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,939 in 2006 · most girls in one year: 104 (2008).
In 2025, 15 US girls were named Aaniyah, making it the 7,135th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,834 places from #5,301 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 24 girls named Aaniyah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,939, reached in 2006. The most girls given the name in a single year was 104, in 2008. For comparison, it was #3,059 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Aaniyah in 28 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1998 with 8 babies. In all, 1,394 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 662 babies named Aaniyah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 312 US girls were named Aaniyah; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 48. In 2025 that was about 1 in 107,151 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Aniyah (31,212 babies since 1880), Aniya (18,085 babies since 1880), Aanya (3,732 babies since 1880) and Aniah (3,276 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Aaniyah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,135 | — | — |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,301 | — | — |
| 2023 | 20 | #5,961 | — | — |
| 2022 | 29 | #4,671 | — | — |
| 2021 | 35 | #4,091 | — | — |
| 2020 | 32 | #4,263 | — | — |
| 2019 | 39 | #3,788 | — | — |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,889 | — | — |
| 2017 | 43 | #3,552 | — | — |
| 2016 | 48 | #3,326 | — | — |
| 2015 | 55 | #3,059 | — | — |
| 2014 | 65 | #2,683 | — | — |
| 2013 | 72 | #2,484 | — | — |
| 2012 | 64 | #2,734 | — | — |
| 2011 | 67 | #2,639 | — | — |
| 2010 | 80 | #2,360 | — | — |
| 2009 | 93 | #2,148 | — | — |
| 2008 | 104 | #2,004 | — | — |
| 2007 | 94 | #2,134 | — | — |
| 2006 | 103 | #1,939 | — | — |
| 2005 | 74 | #2,379 | — | — |
| 2004 | 67 | #2,503 | — | — |
| 2003 | 46 | #3,187 | — | — |
| 2002 | 47 | #3,069 | — | — |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,364 | — | — |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,581 | — | — |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,479 | — | — |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,122 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).