Waniya is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Wanya, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Waniya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 24 in 2025. Its best rank was #5,391 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Waniya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,391 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Waniya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 24 girls in 2025. Peak: #5,391 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 24 (2025).
In 2025, 24 US girls were named Waniya, making it the 5,391st most common girls’ name of the year, up 4,135 places from #9,526 in 2024. That is 13 more than the 11 girls named Waniya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #5,391, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 24. For comparison, it was #10,826 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Waniya in 16 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2009 with 7 babies. In all, 163 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 80 babies named Waniya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 120 US girls were named Waniya; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 24. In 2025 that was about 1 in 66,969 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Wanya (501 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 Waniya 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.
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).