Jniyah

#13,964 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Jniyah has been given to 266 babies in the U.S. since 2001. In 2025 it ranked #13,964 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 24 recorded.

Babies named Jniyah, 2025

1 in 553,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Jniyah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#13,964
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jniyah 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jniyah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jniyahs were born

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

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
53.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
266
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2000s — 53.4% of all recorded uses (142).

Is Jniyah 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
+223
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,770
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.50×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
25.0%
Peak was 2007 (24)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
45.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,631
2011

Spellings of Jniyah

Jniyah is not the most common spelling — Aliyah is, with 17.8% against Jniyah's 0.10%.

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 Jniyah is used

Across 1910–2025, Jniyah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,140,216 across all states with data. It was least common in Florida (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 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. Jniyah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jniyah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,964
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 223
Best rank ever
#5,631
2011
Peak year
2007
24 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
266
Count in 2025
6

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Sibling names for Jniyah

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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