Saniya

Where Saniya comes from

Saniya hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1901
    Saniya Habboub born
    Lebanese medical doctor
  2. 1987
    First appearance
    #11,325 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 2001
    Saniya Anklesaria born
    Indian actress
  4. 2007
    Peak, #494
    655 babies named Saniya — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2012
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #876.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Saniya Habboub · Lebanese medical doctor, 1901–1983
  • Saniya Anklesaria · Indian actress, born 2001
  • Saniya Chong · American basketball player, born 1994
  • Saniya Rivers · American basketball player, born 2003
  • Saniya Shaikh · Indian sport shooter, born 1992

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.