Aaniyah
Aaniyah was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,133 among girls’ names; 1,394 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,380 Americans named Aaniyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 11 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aaniyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Aaniyah?
#7,133 among girls’ names, 2025
Aaniyah fell from #3,059 in 2015 to #7,133 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 30.8 to 9.3 per million.
104 babies in 2008, the peak
Aaniyah peaked in 2008, when 104 girls were given it, #2,004 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,133 | 9.3 |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,298 | 14.8 |
| 2023 | 20 | #5,956 | 12.5 |
| 2022 | 29 | #4,668 | 17.7 |
| 2021 | 35 | #4,088 | 21.3 |
| 2020 | 32 | #4,261 | 19.8 |
| 2019 | 39 | #3,787 | 23.2 |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,886 | 15.9 |
| 2017 | 43 | #3,551 | 24.9 |
| 2016 | 48 | #3,326 | 27.1 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 55 | #3,059 | 30.8 |
| 2014 | 65 | #2,681 | 36.4 |
| 2013 | 72 | #2,484 | 41.0 |
| 2012 | 64 | #2,734 | 36.3 |
| 2011 | 67 | #2,638 | 38.1 |
| 2010 | 80 | #2,360 | 45.0 |
| 2009 | 93 | #2,148 | 50.6 |
| 2008 | 104 | #2,004 | 55.0 |
| 2007 | 94 | #2,134 | 48.9 |
| 2006 | 103 | #1,939 | 54.2 |
| 2005 | 74 | #2,375 | 40.0 |
| 2004 | 67 | #2,500 | 36.5 |
| 2003 | 46 | #3,183 | 25.2 |
| 2002 | 47 | #3,065 | 26.2 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,359 | 11.7 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,574 | 7.2 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,472 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,115 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aaniyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aaniyah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aaniyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aaniyah, and how old are they?
1,380 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,394 Americans ever recorded as Aaniyah. The median Aaniyah alive today is 16 years old; half are between 11 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 887 people named Aaniyah (887 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,238 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 882 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 501 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Aaniyah born?
The states with the most babies named Aaniyah are Texas, California and Georgia, with 60% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 135 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| California | 121 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 64 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Florida | 44 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 39 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 34 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 18 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 17 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Virginia | 12 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 11 | not ranked | 0.3× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Aaniyah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Aaniyah?
Aaniyah is a less common spelling of Aniyah: SSA has recorded 1,394 Aaniyah and 31,212 Aniyah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 64,680 babies since 1880, Aaniyah is the eighth most given (2.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 1,400 babies (1.1%), again the eighth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Aaniyah
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Aaniyah and names like it
- Compare Aaniyah and AniyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAaniyah peaked in 2008.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aaniyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Aaniyah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Aaniyah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.