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Zaniyah

#835 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Zaniyah has been given to 7,428 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #835 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 399 recorded.

Babies named Zaniyah, 2025

1 in 10,100

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zaniyah: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zaniyah means

Zaniyah is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Zaniyah is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,428 girls were recorded with the name Zaniyah between 1996 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 399 in 2014; its best national rank was #705 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #729 in 2020 to #835 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #831 in 2015 to #835 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Zaniyah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 10,100
327 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 4,910
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#835
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
7,028 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zaniyah 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 5005%

Put another way: gather 7,028 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zaniyah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zaniyahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zaniyah was born before 2015 — so the typical Zaniyah is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
47.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
7,428
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 47.0% of all recorded uses (3,491).

Is Zaniyah 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
+2
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−106
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.97×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
82.0%
Peak was 2014 (399)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#705
2014

Spellings of Zaniyah

Zaniyah is not the most common spelling — Aaliyah is, with 21.4% against Zaniyah's 1.4%.

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 Zaniyah is used

Across 2016–2025, Zaniyah was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 2,041 girls, against 1 in 4,366 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in 33,333).

349 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 2,041
  2. 2South Carolina1 in 2,041
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 2,632
  4. 4Georgia1 in 3,125
  5. 5Maryland1 in 3,226
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 3,333
  7. 7Alabama1 in 3,448
  8. 8Colorado1 in 3,448

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.

Geographically, Zaniyah is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 39% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Zaniyah around the world

Where Zaniyah 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
    2014–2025
    #1,512
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2009–2024
    #1,709
    in 2024

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

Zaniyah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#835
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 106
Best rank ever
#705
2014
Peak year
2014
399 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,428
Count in 2025
327

Names similar to Zaniyah

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

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Names with a curve like Zaniyah

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Zaniyah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Zaniyah

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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