Meaning not yet researched.
Saniyah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 175 in 2025. Its best rank was #507 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #507 in 2009; #1,284 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Saniyah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,284 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #507.
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Saniyah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 175 girls in 2025. Peak: #507 in 2009 · most girls in one year: 595 (2009).
In 2025, 175 US girls were named Saniyah, making it the 1,284th most common girls’ name of the year, up 28 places from #1,312 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 176 girls named Saniyah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #507, reached in 2009. That year also had the most girls given the name: 595. For comparison, it was #931 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Saniyah in 29 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1997 with 5 babies. In all, 7,300 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,262 babies named Saniyah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,973 US girls were named Saniyah; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 286. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,184 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Saniyah ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #592 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), Saniya (6,985 babies since 1880), Zaniya (3,527 babies since 1880) and Sanya (1,941 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Sanyiah, Saniyya and Saniaa are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Sanyiah (188), Saniyya (183), Saniaa (43), Sahniya (38), Saniyha (35), Saniaya (24), Sanieya (20), Saniy (18), Saniia (18), Saaniya (10), Sanniah (8), Saniha (5), 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 Saniyah 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 39 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 8 | #592 | #523 |
| Virginia | 11 | #698 | #583 |
| Pennsylvania | 13 | #757 | #783 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #894 | #647 |
| Florida | 18 | #909 | #707 |
| North Carolina | 10 | #964 | #629 |
| Georgia | 9 | #1,056 | #385 |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,144 | #775 |
| New York | 12 | #1,228 | #751 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,382 | #984 |
| California | 16 | #1,471 | #1,713 |
| Texas | 12 | #1,891 | #922 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 175 | #1,284 | — | — |
| 2024 | 176 | #1,312 | — | — |
| 2023 | 150 | #1,469 | — | — |
| 2022 | 180 | #1,317 | — | — |
| 2021 | 171 | #1,321 | — | — |
| 2020 | 175 | #1,280 | — | — |
| 2019 | 176 | #1,306 | — | — |
| 2018 | 286 | #936 | — | — |
| 2017 | 247 | #1,045 | — | — |
| 2016 | 237 | #1,093 | — | — |
| 2015 | 292 | #931 | — | — |
| 2014 | 313 | #876 | — | — |
| 2013 | 324 | #827 | — | — |
| 2012 | 412 | #684 | — | — |
| 2011 | 468 | #619 | — | — |
| 2010 | 507 | #580 | — | — |
| 2009 | 595 | #507 | — | — |
| 2008 | 564 | #547 | — | — |
| 2007 | 528 | #568 | — | — |
| 2006 | 396 | #715 | — | — |
| 2005 | 327 | #795 | — | — |
| 2004 | 273 | #893 | — | — |
| 2003 | 161 | #1,295 | — | — |
| 2002 | 79 | #2,138 | — | — |
| 2001 | 51 | #2,872 | — | — |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,747 | — | — |
| 1999 | 12 | #8,129 | — | — |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,149 | — | — |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,642 | — | — |
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).