Meaning not yet researched.
Saniya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 73 in 2025. Its best rank was #494 in 2007.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #494 in 2007; #2,453 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Saniya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,453 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2007, at #494.
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Saniya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 73 girls in 2025. Peak: #494 in 2007 · most girls in one year: 655 (2007).
In 2025, 73 US girls were named Saniya, making it the 2,453rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 129 places from #2,582 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 69 girls named Saniya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #494, reached in 2007. That year also had the most girls given the name: 655. For comparison, it was #1,352 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Saniya in 36 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1987 with 5 babies. In all, 6,985 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 3,837 babies named Saniya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,178 US girls were named Saniya; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 192. In 2025 that was about 1 in 22,017 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Saniya ranked highest in Virginia in 2025, at #1,163 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Zaniyah (7,428 babies since 1880), Saniyah (7,300 babies since 1880), Zaniya (3,527 babies since 1880) and Sanya (1,941 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Sani, Sanyia and Sanii are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Sani (515), Sanyia (266), Sanii (244), Sanye (112), Saanya (94), Sanyi (57), Saunya (55), Saania (11), Sanyu (10), Sanea (7), Sahnya (5).
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 Saniya 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 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 6 | #1,163 | #1,192 |
| New York | 9 | #1,506 | #1,269 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,743 | #589 |
| Florida | 6 | #2,111 | #976 |
| California | 5 | #3,456 | #2,454 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 73 | #2,453 | — | — |
| 2024 | 69 | #2,582 | — | — |
| 2023 | 73 | #2,464 | — | — |
| 2022 | 85 | #2,225 | — | — |
| 2021 | 109 | #1,847 | — | — |
| 2020 | 106 | #1,848 | — | — |
| 2019 | 142 | #1,526 | — | — |
| 2018 | 143 | #1,530 | — | — |
| 2017 | 186 | #1,272 | — | — |
| 2016 | 192 | #1,269 | — | — |
| 2015 | 176 | #1,352 | — | — |
| 2014 | 230 | #1,109 | — | — |
| 2013 | 276 | #925 | — | — |
| 2012 | 304 | #880 | — | — |
| 2011 | 367 | #751 | — | — |
| 2010 | 491 | #598 | — | — |
| 2009 | 556 | #546 | — | — |
| 2008 | 601 | #512 | — | — |
| 2007 | 655 | #494 | — | — |
| 2006 | 578 | #524 | — | — |
| 2005 | 469 | #607 | — | — |
| 2004 | 448 | #614 | — | — |
| 2003 | 241 | #966 | — | — |
| 2002 | 146 | #1,335 | — | — |
| 2001 | 110 | #1,659 | — | — |
| 2000 | 33 | #3,868 | — | — |
| 1999 | 36 | #3,493 | — | — |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,923 | — | — |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,429 | — | — |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,689 | — | — |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,615 | — | — |
| 1994 | 6 | #13,081 | — | — |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,939 | — | — |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,772 | — | — |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,756 | — | — |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,817 | — | — |
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).