Saniyah
#1,279 for girls in 2025, 175 births
- Peak · girls
- 2009 · 595 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 7,300since 1997
Saniyah over time
Rank among girls' names. Saniyah has never cracked the top 500 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 | #1,279 | 175 |
| 2024 | #1,305 | 176 |
| 2023 | #1,465 | 150 |
| 2022 | #1,309 | 180 |
| 2021 | #1,317 | 171 |
| 2020 | #1,276 | 175 |
| 2019 | #1,302 | 176 |
| 2018 | #934 | 286 |
| 2017 | #1,042 | 247 |
| 2016 | #1,088 | 237 |
| 2015 | #930 | 292 |
| 2014 | #873 | 313 |
| 2013 | #825 | 324 |
| 2012 | #683 | 412 |
| 2011 | #619 | 468 |
| 2010 | #580 | 507 |
| 2009 | #507 | 595 |
| 2008 | #545 | 564 |
| 2007 | #568 | 528 |
| 2006 | #715 | 396 |
| 2005 | #795 | 327 |
| 2004 | #890 | 273 |
| 2003 | #1,291 | 161 |
| 2002 | #2,126 | 79 |
| 2001 | #2,844 | 51 |
| 2000 | #9,163 | 10 |
| 1999 | #7,716 | 12 |
| 1998 | #8,584 | 10 |
| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Saniyah! It came in at #13,724, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1997, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Saniyah is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Georgia#679 · 1 in 3,019
- Pennsylvania#829 · 1 in 4,435
- Wisconsin#833 · 1 in 4,295
- Virginia#862 · 1 in 4,322
- North Carolina#1,020 · 1 in 5,634
Best ever in a state: #148 in Delaware, 2009.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | #679 | 15 | 1 in 3,019 |
| Pennsylvania | #829 | 11 | 1 in 4,435 |
| Wisconsin | #833 | 5 | 1 in 4,295 |
| Virginia | #862 | 8 | 1 in 4,322 |
| North Carolina | #1,020 | 8 | 1 in 5,634 |
| New Jersey | #1,046 | 6 | 1 in 6,071 |
| Indiana | #1,054 | 5 | 1 in 5,677 |
| Tennessee | #1,125 | 5 | 1 in 6,245 |
| New York | #1,145 | 12 | 1 in 6,771 |
| Ohio | #1,147 | 7 | 1 in 6,944 |
| Michigan | #1,241 | 5 | 1 in 7,667 |
| Texas | #1,399 | 17 | 1 in 9,146 |
| Florida | #1,463 | 8 | 1 in 10,450 |
| California | #2,032 | 10 | 1 in 17,453 |
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See more about Saniyah
- 26 spots since 2024 (#1,305 → #1,279)
- 3 spots since 2020 (#1,276 → #1,279)
- 349 spots since 2015 (#930 → #1,279)
- Biggest jump: 401 spots in 2004 (#1,291 → #890)
- Biggest drop: 368 spots in 2019 (#934 → #1,302)
- Debuted 1997
- Peaked 2009 at #507 (595 births)
- Births halved by 2015, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 13 yrs · run 2004–2015
- Highest: 1 in 3,088 girls born in 2009 were named Saniyah (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 9,184 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 44.7% of all girls named Saniyah (3,262) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 27 | #7,716 (1999) | #10,008 |
| 2000s | 2,984 | #507 (2009) | #1,944 |
| 2010s | 3,262 | #580 (2010) | #888 |
| 2020s | 1,027 | #1,276 (2020) | #1,325 |
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.
Saniyah in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
More about 2021
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1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 9,596 of them was named Saniyah, which outranked 92.5% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,312Janae172
- #1,312Jovi172
- #1,312Rosalind172
- #1,317Saniyah171
- #1,317Annette171
- #1,317Kristina171
- #1,317Mireya171
- #1,323Adira170
- #1,323Eleni170
- #1,323Lilyanna170
Tied with 5 names at #1,317; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.