Meaning not yet researched.
Zaniya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 72 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,011 in 2007.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,011 in 2007; #2,484 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Zaniya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,484 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2007, at #1,011.
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Zaniya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 72 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,011 in 2007 · most girls in one year: 263 (2007).
In 2025, 72 US girls were named Zaniya, making it the 2,484th most common girls’ name of the year, up 151 places from #2,635 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 67 girls named Zaniya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,011, reached in 2007. That year also had the most girls given the name: 263. For comparison, it was #1,599 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zaniya in 30 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1996 with 6 babies. In all, 3,527 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,571 babies named Zaniya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 847 US girls were named Zaniya; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 106. In 2025 that was about 1 in 22,323 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zaniya ranked highest in Wisconsin in 2025, at #924 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), Saniya (6,985 babies since 1880) and Sanya (1,941 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zani, Zanyia and Zanie are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Zani (262), Zanyia (239), Zanie (26), Zanea (24), Zahnya (20), Zanye (6), Zaney (5), Zahnia (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 Zaniya 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin | 5 | #924 | — |
| Florida | 7 | #1,883 | #1,351 |
| New York | 6 | #2,065 | #2,211 |
| Texas | 9 | #2,384 | #1,920 |
| California | 6 | #3,087 | #3,929 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72 | #2,484 | — | — |
| 2024 | 67 | #2,635 | — | — |
| 2023 | 81 | #2,287 | — | — |
| 2022 | 70 | #2,553 | — | — |
| 2021 | 75 | #2,414 | — | — |
| 2020 | 90 | #2,064 | — | — |
| 2019 | 99 | #1,970 | — | — |
| 2018 | 106 | #1,899 | — | — |
| 2017 | 85 | #2,235 | — | — |
| 2016 | 102 | #1,970 | — | — |
| 2015 | 135 | #1,599 | — | — |
| 2014 | 142 | #1,546 | — | — |
| 2013 | 180 | #1,307 | — | — |
| 2012 | 186 | #1,287 | — | — |
| 2011 | 197 | #1,223 | — | — |
| 2010 | 223 | #1,109 | — | — |
| 2009 | 245 | #1,055 | — | — |
| 2008 | 219 | #1,177 | — | — |
| 2007 | 263 | #1,011 | — | — |
| 2006 | 196 | #1,233 | — | — |
| 2005 | 174 | #1,288 | — | — |
| 2004 | 149 | #1,403 | — | — |
| 2003 | 129 | #1,521 | — | — |
| 2002 | 81 | #2,111 | — | — |
| 2001 | 70 | #2,303 | — | — |
| 2000 | 45 | #3,120 | — | — |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,188 | — | — |
| 1998 | 14 | #7,099 | — | — |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,795 | — | — |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,507 | — | — |
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).