Leniyah

#12,620 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Leniyah has been given to 264 babies in the U.S. since 2003. In 2025 it ranked #12,620 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Leniyah, 2025

1 in 474,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,620
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Leniyah 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leniyah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Leniyahs were born

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

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
47.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
264
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 47.7% of all recorded uses (126).

Is Leniyah 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,858
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,360
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.58×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
30.4%
Peak was 2009 (23)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,010
2009

Spellings of Leniyah

Leniyah is not the most common spelling — Aniyah is, with 29.9% against Leniyah's 0.25%.

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.

Leniyah around the world

Where Leniyah 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
    2019–2019
    #5,591
    in 2019

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Leniyah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,620
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,858
Best rank ever
#6,010
2009
Peak year
2009
23 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
264
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Leniyah

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Sibling names for Leniyah

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