Laniyah
#2,354 for girls in 2025, 77 births
- Peak · girls
- 2010 · 295 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,704since 1994
Laniyah over time
Rank among girls' names. Laniyah has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,354 | 77 |
| 2024 | #2,347 | 78 |
| 2023 | #1,890 | 105 |
| 2022 | #2,253 | 83 |
| 2021 | #1,721 | 120 |
| 2020 | #1,716 | 118 |
| 2019 | #1,888 | 106 |
| 2018 | #1,595 | 134 |
| 2017 | #1,392 | 165 |
| 2016 | #1,550 | 144 |
| 2015 | #1,275 | 191 |
| 2014 | #1,333 | 177 |
| 2013 | #1,171 | 205 |
| 2012 | #1,080 | 230 |
| 2011 | #1,036 | 240 |
| 2010 | #896 | 295 |
| 2009 | #1,215 | 205 |
| 2008 | #1,218 | 208 |
| 2007 | #1,283 | 191 |
| 2006 | #1,331 | 175 |
| 2005 | #1,494 | 140 |
| 2004 | #1,769 | 108 |
| 2003 | #2,413 | 68 |
| 2002 | #3,654 | 36 |
| 2001 | #3,368 | 40 |
| 2000 | #5,151 | 22 |
| 1999 | #5,039 | 21 |
| 1998 | #8,584 | 10 |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 |
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| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Laniyah! It came in at #11,778, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1995–1996, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Laniyah is popular in 2015
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#485 · 1 in 1,872
- Pennsylvania#674 · 1 in 3,520
- North Carolina#760 · 1 in 4,128
- Indiana#767 · 1 in 3,828
- Maryland#776 · 1 in 4,017
Best ever in a state: #190 in District of Columbia, 2007.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Mississippi | #485 | 6 | 1 in 1,872 |
| Pennsylvania | #674 | 15 | 1 in 3,520 |
| North Carolina | #760 | 11 | 1 in 4,128 |
| Indiana | #767 | 8 | 1 in 3,828 |
| Maryland | #776 | 6 | 1 in 4,017 |
| Virginia | #848 | 8 | 1 in 4,685 |
| Illinois | #858 | 12 | 1 in 4,878 |
| Louisiana | #884 | 5 | 1 in 4,258 |
| Ohio | #893 | 10 | 1 in 5,278 |
| Florida | #942 | 15 | 1 in 5,731 |
| California | #1,337 | 21 | 1 in 9,778 |
| New York | #1,613 | 8 | 1 in 11,415 |
| Texas | #2,200 | 9 | 1 in 18,853 |
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See more about Laniyah
- 7 spots since 2024 (#2,347 → #2,354)
- 638 spots since 2020 (#1,716 → #2,354)
- 1,079 spots since 2015 (#1,275 → #2,354)
- Biggest jump: 319 spots in 2010 (#1,215 → #896)
- Biggest drop: 140 spots in 2011 (#896 → #1,036)
- Debuted 1994
- Peaked 2010 at #896 (295 births)
- Births halved by 2016, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 2010
- Highest: 1 in 6,026 girls born in 2010 were named Laniyah (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 20,874 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 50.9% of all girls named Laniyah (1,887) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 43 | #5,039 (1999) | #9,368 |
| 2000s | 1,193 | #1,215 (2009) | #2,290 |
| 2010s | 1,887 | #896 (2010) | #1,322 |
| 2020s | 581 | #1,716 (2020) | #2,047 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Laniyah in 2015
Top girls' names in 2015
More about 2015
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1,785,098 girls got a published name in 2015; 1 in 9,346 of them was named Laniyah, which outranked 93.3% of the 19,130 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,266Kaylyn192
- #1,266Lorena192
- #1,266Viola192
- #1,275Laniyah191
- #1,275Agnes191
- #1,275Margo191
- #1,275Shea191
- #1,280Ali190
- #1,280Britney190
- #1,280Nalani190
Tied with 4 names at #1,275; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.