Zaniya
#2,484 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Zaniya has been given to 3,527 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #2,484 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 263 recorded.
Babies named Zaniya, 2025
1 in 46,000
Zaniya 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Zaniya?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 46,000
- 72 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 22,300
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #2,484
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 31,916 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Zaniya sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 31,916 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zaniya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Zaniyas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Zaniya was born before 2010 — so the typical Zaniya is around 15 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 44.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 97.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 3,527
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 44.5% of all recorded uses (1,571).
Is Zaniya 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
- +151
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −420
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −885
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.53×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 27.4%
- Peak was 2007 (263)
- Years since peak
- 18
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 13.8% average annual change
Spellings of Zaniya
Zaniya is not the most common spelling — Anita is, with 25.4% against Zaniya's 0.42%.
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 Zaniya is used
Across 2016–2025, Zaniya was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 23,070 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in 50,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Alabama1 in 11,111
- 2North Carolina1 in 11,111
- 3Arkansas1 in 16,667
- 4Florida1 in 16,667
- 5Mississippi1 in 16,667
- 6Texas1 in 16,667
- 7Georgia1 in 20,000
- 8Ohio1 in 25,000
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.
Zaniya around the world
Where Zaniya 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 & Wales2018–2021#5,581in 2021
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Zaniya by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Zaniya
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Zaniya
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Zaniya, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Zaniya
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.