Anniyah

#6,867 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Anniyah has been given to 829 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #6,867 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 63 recorded.

Babies named Anniyah, 2025

1 in 207,000

Anniyah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Anniyah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,867
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anniyah 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anniyah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anniyahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anniyah was born before 2011 — so the typical Anniyah is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
47.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
829
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2010s — 47.4% of all recorded uses (393).

Is Anniyah 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
+4,339
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−765
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,364
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.52×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
25.4%
Peak was 2009 (63)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,799
2009

Spellings of Anniyah

Anniyah is not the most common spelling — Aaliyah is, with 31.5% against Anniyah's 0.24%.

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 Anniyah is used

Across 1910–2025, Anniyah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 460,365 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Michigan1 in —
  6. 6New Jersey1 in —
  7. 7New York1 in —
  8. 8Oklahoma1 in —

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. Anniyah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Anniyah around the world

Where Anniyah 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
    2005–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2012–2012
    #815
    in 2012
  • Canada
    2012–2012
    #2,573
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Anniyah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,867
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 765
Best rank ever
#2,799
2009
Peak year
2009
63 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
829
Count in 2025
16

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Sibling names for Anniyah

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