Meaning not yet researched.
Zaniah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 35 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,716 in 2008.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,716 in 2008; #4,170 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Zaniah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,170 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2008, at #1,716.
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Zaniah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 35 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,716 in 2008 · most girls in one year: 130 (2008).
In 2025, 35 US girls were named Zaniah, making it the 4,170th most common girls’ name of the year, up 214 places from #4,384 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 33 girls named Zaniah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,716, reached in 2008. That year also had the most girls given the name: 130. For comparison, it was #2,684 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zaniah in 30 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1994 with 5 babies. In all, 1,766 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 737 babies named Zaniah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 512 US girls were named Zaniah; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 71. In 2025 that was about 1 in 45,922 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
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 Sania (1,906 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 Zaniah 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.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #4,170 | — | — |
| 2024 | 33 | #4,384 | — | — |
| 2023 | 48 | #3,384 | — | — |
| 2022 | 62 | #2,789 | — | — |
| 2021 | 44 | #3,552 | — | — |
| 2020 | 64 | #2,658 | — | — |
| 2019 | 54 | #3,041 | — | — |
| 2018 | 71 | #2,505 | — | — |
| 2017 | 50 | #3,243 | — | — |
| 2016 | 51 | #3,227 | — | — |
| 2015 | 67 | #2,684 | — | — |
| 2014 | 76 | #2,411 | — | — |
| 2013 | 83 | #2,258 | — | — |
| 2012 | 88 | #2,159 | — | — |
| 2011 | 101 | #1,967 | — | — |
| 2010 | 96 | #2,076 | — | — |
| 2009 | 112 | #1,888 | — | — |
| 2008 | 130 | #1,716 | — | — |
| 2007 | 96 | #2,116 | — | — |
| 2006 | 102 | #1,977 | — | — |
| 2005 | 80 | #2,277 | — | — |
| 2004 | 51 | #3,069 | — | — |
| 2003 | 47 | #3,186 | — | — |
| 2002 | 43 | #3,282 | — | — |
| 2001 | 33 | #3,939 | — | — |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,576 | — | — |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,187 | — | — |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,830 | — | — |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,872 | — | — |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,744 | — | — |
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).