Meaning not yet researched.
Aniyah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 618 in 2025. Its best rank was #177 in 2010.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #177 in 2010; #485 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Aniyah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#485 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2010, at #177.
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Aniyah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 618 girls in 2025. Peak: #177 in 2010 · most girls in one year: 1,825 (2009).
In 2025, 618 US girls were named Aniyah, making it the 485th most common girls’ name of the year, down 27 places from #458 in 2024. That is 65 fewer than the 683 girls named Aniyah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #177, reached in 2010. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,825, in 2009. For comparison, it was #246 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Aniyah in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1991 with 7 babies. In all, 31,212 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 13,817 babies named Aniyah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 9,527 US girls were named Aniyah; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,169. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,601 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Aniyah ranked highest in North Dakota in 2025, at #198 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Anya (20,561 babies since 1880), Aniya (18,085 babies since 1880), Ania (3,315 babies since 1880) and Aniah (3,276 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Anniyah, Anyiah and Aaniya are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Anniyah (829), Anyiah (741), Aaniya (362), Ahniya (347), Aniaya (334), Ahniyah (321), Aneya (249), Aniyha (228), Aniayah (163), Aneyah (91), Anihya (89), Aniyia (82), and more.
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 Aniyah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 18 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Dakota | 5 | #198 | — |
| Mississippi | 11 | #245 | #140 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #308 | — |
| Alabama | 15 | #321 | #231 |
| Louisiana | 14 | #325 | #162 |
| Ohio | 33 | #336 | #178 |
| Kentucky | 13 | #337 | #262 |
| Florida | 51 | #359 | #188 |
| Oklahoma | 11 | #377 | #170 |
| Georgia | 29 | #384 | #151 |
| Washington | 18 | #392 | #596 |
| Maryland | 13 | #400 | #160 |
| Nebraska | 5 | #403 | — |
| Indiana | 16 | #423 | #295 |
| Texas | 72 | #461 | #229 |
| Virginia | 17 | #467 | #203 |
| Missouri | 12 | #480 | #566 |
| New York | 35 | #483 | #334 |
| Pennsylvania | 21 | #490 | #302 |
| Oregon | 7 | #491 | #527 |
| Tennessee | 15 | #501 | #188 |
| North Carolina | 21 | #511 | #199 |
| Nevada | 5 | #519 | #319 |
| Illinois | 18 | #542 | #175 |
| Colorado | 10 | #544 | #278 |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #567 | #482 |
| Arizona | 11 | #584 | #234 |
| Kansas | 5 | #589 | #363 |
| Michigan | 13 | #596 | #234 |
| California | 52 | #607 | #337 |
| South Carolina | 7 | #617 | #110 |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #623 | #264 |
| New Jersey | 11 | #672 | #285 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 618 | #485 | — | — |
| 2024 | 683 | #458 | — | — |
| 2023 | 828 | #372 | — | — |
| 2022 | 824 | #378 | — | — |
| 2021 | 968 | #338 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,035 | #309 | — | — |
| 2019 | 1,152 | #290 | — | — |
| 2018 | 1,132 | #291 | — | — |
| 2017 | 1,118 | #291 | — | — |
| 2016 | 1,169 | #271 | — | — |
| 2015 | 1,310 | #246 | — | — |
| 2014 | 1,499 | #225 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,465 | #217 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,646 | #191 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,587 | #197 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,739 | #177 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,825 | #181 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,824 | #184 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,687 | #205 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,547 | #222 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,481 | #231 | 5 | #11,573 |
| 2004 | 1,102 | #296 | — | — |
| 2003 | 886 | #350 | — | — |
| 2002 | 700 | #415 | — | — |
| 2001 | 491 | #541 | — | — |
| 2000 | 320 | #727 | — | — |
| 1999 | 231 | #914 | — | — |
| 1998 | 135 | #1,313 | — | — |
| 1997 | 80 | #1,847 | — | — |
| 1996 | 45 | #2,720 | — | — |
| 1995 | 34 | #3,292 | — | — |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,530 | — | — |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,092 | — | — |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,554 | — | — |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,332 | — | — |
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).