Aniyah
#485 for girls in 2025, 618 births · Last seen for boys in 2005 at #11,472
Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2010 · 1,739 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 31,207since 1991
Aniyah over time
Rank among girls' names. Aniyah has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #485 | 618 | — | |
| 2024 | #458 | 683 | — | |
| 2023 | #372 | 828 | — | |
| 2022 | #378 | 824 | — | |
| 2021 | #338 | 968 | — | |
| 2020 | #309 | 1,035 | — | |
| 2019 | #290 | 1,152 | — | |
| 2018 | #291 | 1,132 | — | |
| 2017 | #291 | 1,118 | — | |
| 2016 | #271 | 1,169 | — | |
| 2015 | #246 | 1,310 | — | |
| 2014 | #225 | 1,499 | — | |
| 2013 | #217 | 1,465 | — | |
| 2012 | #191 | 1,646 | — | |
| 2011 | #197 | 1,587 | — | |
| 2010 | #177 | 1,739 | — | |
| 2009 | #181 | 1,825 | — | |
| 2008 | #184 | 1,824 | — | |
| 2007 | #205 | 1,687 | — | |
| 2006 | #222 | 1,547 | — | |
| 2005 | #231 | 1,481 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #296 | 1,102 | — | |
| 2003 | #350 | 886 | — | |
| 2002 | #415 | 700 | — | |
| 2001 | #541 | 491 | — | |
| 2000 | #727 | 320 | — | |
| 1999 | #914 | 231 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,312 | 135 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,845 | 80 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,714 | 45 | — | |
| 1995 | #3,285 | 34 | — | |
| 1994 | #4,521 | 22 | — | |
| 1993 | #8,052 | 10 | — | |
| 1992 | #10,479 | 7 | — | |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Aniyah! It came in at #10,271, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1991–1993, when fewer than 11 girls a year got the name.
Where Aniyah is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#183 · 1 in 683
- Delaware#184 · 1 in 506
- Oklahoma#186 · 1 in 750
- Nevada#191 · 1 in 774
- North Carolina#192 · 1 in 873
Best ever in a state: #44 in Delaware, 2007.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #183 | 16 | 1 in 683 |
| Delaware | #184 | 5 | 1 in 506 |
| Oklahoma | #186 | 21 | 1 in 750 |
| Nevada | #191 | 14 | 1 in 774 |
| North Carolina | #192 | 52 | 1 in 873 |
| South Carolina | #194 | 23 | 1 in 772 |
| Florida | #200 | 87 | 1 in 988 |
| Indiana | #212 | 33 | 1 in 912 |
| Alabama | #214 | 22 | 1 in 872 |
| North Dakota | #214 | 5 | 1 in 611 |
| Kansas | #220 | 14 | 1 in 857 |
| Texas | #229 | 140 | 1 in 1,142 |
| Maryland | #232 | 26 | 1 in 895 |
| Georgia | #235 | 47 | 1 in 1,003 |
| District of Columbia | #237 | 5 | 1 in 694 |
| Ohio | #245 | 47 | 1 in 1,102 |
| Louisiana | #250 | 20 | 1 in 994 |
| Tennessee | #250 | 30 | 1 in 1,020 |
| Arkansas | #251 | 12 | 1 in 936 |
| Michigan | #253 | 37 | 1 in 1,115 |
| Virginia | #257 | 32 | 1 in 1,126 |
| Illinois | #263 | 46 | 1 in 1,207 |
| Massachusetts | #284 | 21 | 1 in 1,200 |
| Wisconsin | #287 | 19 | 1 in 1,188 |
| Arizona | #291 | 25 | 1 in 1,203 |
| Colorado | #298 | 18 | 1 in 1,257 |
| Pennsylvania | #321 | 36 | 1 in 1,421 |
| Connecticut | #326 | 9 | 1 in 1,308 |
| New York | #357 | 53 | 1 in 1,660 |
| Iowa | #364 | 9 | 1 in 1,384 |
| Kentucky | #389 | 11 | 1 in 1,626 |
| Minnesota | #392 | 14 | 1 in 1,709 |
| New Jersey | #393 | 20 | 1 in 1,798 |
| California | #398 | 99 | 1 in 1,977 |
| Missouri | #459 | 13 | 1 in 1,998 |
| Washington | #569 | 12 | 1 in 2,589 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Aniyah
- 27 spots since 2024 (#458 → #485)
- 176 spots since 2020 (#309 → #485)
- 239 spots since 2015 (#246 → #485)
- Biggest jump: 398 spots in 1999 (#1,312 → #914)
- Biggest drop: 86 spots in 2024 (#372 → #458)
- Debuted 1991
- Peaked 2010 at #177 (1,739 births)
- Births halved by 2022, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 27 yrs · run 1999–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,007 girls born in 2009 were named Aniyah (0.10%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,601 girls born in 2025 (0.04%)
- Its best rank, #177 in 2010, was only 1 in 1,022 (0.10%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 44.3% of all girls named Aniyah (13,817) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 571 | #914 (1999) | #4,821 |
| 2000s | 11,863 | #181 (2009) | #335 |
| 2010s | 13,817 | #177 (2010) | #240 |
| 2020s | 4,956 | #309 (2020) | #390 |
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.
Aniyah in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 1,544 of them was named Aniyah, which outranked 98.4% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.