Shaniayah
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shaniayah has been given to 6 babies in the U.S. since 2007. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2007, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Shaniayah, 2007
1 in 666,000
Shaniayah over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shaniayah?
Shaniayah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2007, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2007
- 1 in 666,000
- 6 of 3,997,748 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 320,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2007
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 461,839 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shaniayah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2007 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 461,839 children born in 2007 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shaniayah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shaniayahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shaniayah was born before 2007 — so the typical Shaniayah is around 18 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 6
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (6).
Is Shaniayah 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
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2007 (6)
- Years since peak
- 18
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Shaniayah
Shaniayah is not the most common spelling — Saniyah is, with 29.8% against Shaniayah's 0.02%.
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.
Shaniayah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shaniayah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shaniayah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.