Aniya
Aniya was given to 226 girls in 2025, #1,071 among girls’ names; 18,085 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 17,900 Americans named Aniya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 13 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aniya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aniya mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Aniya is “a female given name.”
Said by some references to be Hebrew.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aniya?
#1,071 among girls’ names, 2025
Aniya fell from #595 in 2015 to #1,071 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.28 to 0.14 per 1,000.
1,271 babies in 2007, the peak
Aniya peaked in 2007, when 1,271 girls were given it, #267 among girls’ names. The 226 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 226 | #1,071 | 0.14 |
| 2024 | 204 | #1,175 | 0.13 |
| 2023 | 248 | #1,019 | 0.15 |
| 2022 | 234 | #1,073 | 0.14 |
| 2021 | 265 | #979 | 0.16 |
| 2020 | 307 | #876 | 0.19 |
| 2019 | 356 | #779 | 0.21 |
| 2018 | 402 | #713 | 0.24 |
| 2017 | 386 | #733 | 0.22 |
| 2016 | 434 | #672 | 0.24 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 501 | #595 | 0.28 |
| 2014 | 564 | #549 | 0.32 |
| 2013 | 592 | #508 | 0.34 |
| 2012 | 682 | #457 | 0.39 |
| 2011 | 770 | #412 | 0.44 |
| 2010 | 955 | #337 | 0.54 |
| 2009 | 1,086 | #304 | 0.59 |
| 2008 | 1,251 | #273 | 0.66 |
| 2007 | 1,271 | #267 | 0.66 |
| 2006 | 1,262 | #262 | 0.66 |
| 2005 | 1,246 | #261 | 0.67 |
| 2004 | 1,231 | #262 | 0.67 |
| 2003 | 976 | #316 | 0.53 |
| 2002 | 763 | #387 | 0.42 |
| 2001 | 552 | #498 | 0.31 |
| 2000 | 448 | #580 | 0.25 |
| 1999 | 322 | #701 | 0.18 |
| 1998 | 185 | #1,059 | 0.10 |
| 1997 | 107 | #1,513 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 64 | #2,123 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 47 | #2,620 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 40 | #2,932 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 29 | #3,679 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,278 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,324 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,288 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,732 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,425 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,404 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 5 | #10,993 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,079 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,594 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,509 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,279 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aniya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aniya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aniya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aniya, and how old are they?
17,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 18,085 Americans ever recorded as Aniya. The median Aniya alive today is 18 years old; half are between 13 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 13,135 people named Aniya (13,115 women and girls, 20 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 16,548 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% 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 X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 249 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 13,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,690 |
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 Aniya born?
The states with the most babies named Aniya are Texas, New York and Florida, with 33% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 27 | #1,038 | 0.8× |
| New York | 17 | #908 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 15 | #1,004 | 1.2× |
| California | 15 | #1,498 | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 13 | #750 | 1.8× |
| Ohio | 11 | #811 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #874 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 9 | #984 | 1.8× |
| Illinois | 9 | #935 | 1.3× |
| Michigan | 8 | #867 | 1.3× |
Where Aniya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aniya is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1979 it was given 2.7 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 Aniya with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,125,177 babies since 1880, Aniya is the fifth most given (1.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 226 of their 6,549 babies (3.5%), the sixth most given that year.
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 Aniya
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 Aniya and names like it
- Compare Aniya and AnnaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAniya peaked in 2007.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aniya since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Aniya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Aniya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.