Aniah
Aniah was given to 48 girls in 2025, #3,254 among girls’ names; 3,276 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,250 Americans named Aniah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 12 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aniah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Aniah?
#3,254 among girls’ names, 2025
Aniah fell from #2,090 in 2015 to #3,254 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 52.1 to 29.9 per million.
230 babies in 2006, the peak
Aniah peaked in 2006, when 230 girls were given it, #1,095 among girls’ names. The 48 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48 | #3,254 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 66 | #2,638 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 55 | #3,017 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 43 | #3,603 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 73 | #2,442 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 74 | #2,377 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 72 | #2,452 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 66 | #2,614 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 99 | #1,991 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 103 | #1,943 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 93 | #2,090 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 115 | #1,783 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 97 | #2,003 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 132 | #1,632 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 160 | #1,419 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 163 | #1,404 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 214 | #1,174 | 0.12 |
| 2008 | 211 | #1,207 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 222 | #1,153 | 0.12 |
| 2006 | 230 | #1,095 | 0.12 |
| 2005 | 180 | #1,256 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 163 | #1,308 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 150 | #1,347 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 134 | #1,424 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 99 | #1,793 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 70 | #2,236 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 53 | #2,642 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,375 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 29 | #3,820 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,075 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,274 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,631 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aniah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aniah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aniah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aniah, and how old are they?
3,250 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,276 Americans ever recorded as Aniah. The median Aniah alive today is 17 years old; half are between 12 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 2,418 people named Aniah (2,386 women and girls, 32 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,913 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 36 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,210 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 998 |
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 Aniah born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 7 | #2,664 | 1.0× |
| California | 5 | #3,149 | 0.7× |
Where Aniah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aniah is most over-represented in Florida: since 1994 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Aniah 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 Aniah?
Aniah is a less common spelling of Aniyah: SSA has recorded 3,276 Aniah and 31,212 Aniyah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,125,771 babies since 1880, Aniah is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 48 of their 6,422 babies (<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 Aniah
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 Aniah and names like it
- Compare Aniah and AniyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAniah peaked in 2006.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aniah since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Aniah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Aniah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.