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 2014
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- North Carolina#472 · 1 in 2,256
- Connecticut#500 · 1 in 2,420
- New Jersey#506 · 1 in 2,474
- Pennsylvania#512 · 1 in 2,661
- Nevada#532 · 1 in 2,156
Best ever in a state: #148 in Delaware, 2009.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | #472 | 20 | 1 in 2,256 |
| Connecticut | #500 | 5 | 1 in 2,420 |
| New Jersey | #506 | 15 | 1 in 2,474 |
| Pennsylvania | #512 | 20 | 1 in 2,661 |
| Nevada | #532 | 5 | 1 in 2,156 |
| Tennessee | #576 | 11 | 1 in 2,829 |
| South Carolina | #642 | 6 | 1 in 3,044 |
| Louisiana | #648 | 7 | 1 in 2,986 |
| Virginia | #655 | 11 | 1 in 3,392 |
| Georgia | #677 | 14 | 1 in 3,443 |
| Alabama | #687 | 6 | 1 in 3,224 |
| Florida | #705 | 22 | 1 in 3,806 |
| Arizona | #712 | 9 | 1 in 3,523 |
| Massachusetts | #727 | 6 | 1 in 4,232 |
| New York | #734 | 24 | 1 in 3,852 |
| Ohio | #770 | 12 | 1 in 4,412 |
| Maryland | #772 | 6 | 1 in 4,052 |
| Illinois | #826 | 13 | 1 in 4,536 |
| Indiana | #909 | 6 | 1 in 5,090 |
| Texas | #941 | 30 | 1 in 5,559 |
| Missouri | #952 | 5 | 1 in 5,422 |
| Michigan | #984 | 7 | 1 in 6,025 |
| Washington | #1,100 | 5 | 1 in 6,280 |
| California | #1,486 | 18 | 1 in 11,648 |
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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 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 2014
Top girls' names in 2014
More about 2014
girls
1,786,355 girls got a published name in 2014; 1 in 5,707 of them was named Saniyah, which outranked 95.5% of the 19,232 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #870Hadleigh314
- #870Paloma314
- #870Sharon314
- #873Saniyah313
- #873Emmaline313
- #873Giovanna313
- #873Keyla313
- #877Audriana312
- #877Avianna312
- #877Kimora312
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 3,632Aranza#4,243 → #611
- ↑ 576Montserrat#1,148 → #572
- ↑ 573Monserrat#1,165 → #592
- ↑ 463Maisie#1,116 → #653
- ↑ 419Ariadne#1,220 → #801
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.