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Raniya

#4,438 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly to gaze, to look intently

Raniya has been given to 1,597 babies in the U.S. since 1999. In 2025 it ranked #4,438 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 119 recorded.

Babies named Raniya, 2025

1 in 104,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Raniya: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly to gaze, to look intently

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Raniya means

Raniya may mean “to gaze, to look intently”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,597 girls were recorded with the name Raniya between 1999 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 119 in 2008; its best national rank was #1,822 in 2008.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,896 in 2020 to #4,438 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,126 in 2015 to #4,438 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 Raniya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 104,000
32 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 50,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,438
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
71,810 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Raniya 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 71,810 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Raniya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Raniyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Raniya was born before 2010 — so the typical Raniya is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
44.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,597
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 44.7% of all recorded uses (714).

Is Raniya 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
−490
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−542
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−312
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.89×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
26.9%
Peak was 2008 (119)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,822
2008

Spellings of Raniya

Raniya is not the most common spelling — Anita is, with 25.5% against Raniya's 0.19%.

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 Raniya is used

Across 1910–2025, Raniya was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 184,408 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 33,333
  2. 2Georgia1 in 100,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 100,000
  4. 4Louisiana1 in 100,000
  5. 5Maryland1 in 100,000
  6. 6Missouri1 in 100,000
  7. 7Mississippi1 in 100,000
  8. 8Ohio1 in 100,000

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

Raniya around the world

Where Raniya 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
    2004–2025
    #3,035
    in 2025
  • France
    1966–2025
    #6,649
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2007–2008
    #3,151
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Raniya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,438
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 542
Best rank ever
#1,822
2008
Peak year
2008
119 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,597
Count in 2025
32

Names similar to Raniya

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

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Sibling names for Raniya

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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