In 2025, 58 US girls were named Raniyah, making it the 2,923rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 522 places from #3,445 in 2024. That is 12 more than the 46 girls named Raniyah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,539, reached in 2011. The most girls given the name in a single year was 144, in 2010. For comparison, it was #1,790 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Raniyah in 28 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1990 with 5 babies. In all, 2,185 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,149 babies named Raniyah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 723 US girls were named Raniyah; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 109. In 2025 that was about 1 in 27,712 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Raniyah ranked highest in Ohio in 2025, at #1,242 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Rania (3,135 babies since 1880) and Raniya (1,597 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Rayniyah, Rahniyah and Raeniyah are summarised on this page.