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Aniah

#3,254 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Aniah has been given to 3,276 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #3,254 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 230 recorded.

Babies named Aniah, 2025

1 in 69,100

Aniah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aniah: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Aniah means

Aniah is a given name.

The naming story behind Aniah

Wikidata records Aniah as a given name. The entity identifier is Q122418207, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,276 girls were recorded with the name Aniah between 1994 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 230 in 2006; its best national rank was #1,095 in 2006.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,377 in 2020 to #3,254 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,090 in 2015 to #3,254 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Aniah?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 69,100
48 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 33,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,254
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
47,874 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aniah sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 47,874 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aniah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aniahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aniah was born before 2009 — so the typical Aniah is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
51.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,276
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 51.1% of all recorded uses (1,673).

Is Aniah rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−616
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−877
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,164
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.52×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
20.9%
Peak was 2006 (230)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,095
2006

Spellings of Aniah

Aniah is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 35.5% against Aniah's 0.13%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Aniah is used

Across 2016–2025, Aniah was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 28,370 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

16 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 16,667
  2. 2Texas1 in 20,000
  3. 3California1 in 25,000
  4. 4Michigan1 in 25,000
  5. 5Alabama1 in 33,333
  6. 6Arizona1 in 50,000
  7. 7Indiana1 in 50,000
  8. 8Ohio1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Aniah around the world

Where Aniah ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2006–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • France
    2006–2022
    #6,417
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2008–2020
    #2,164
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    2000–2000
    #727
    in 2000

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Aniah by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,254
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 877
Best rank ever
#1,095
2006
Peak year
2006
230 that year
First recorded
1994
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,276
Count in 2025
48

Names similar to Aniah

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Aniah

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Aniah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Aniah

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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