Aniyah
Aniyah was given to 618 girls in 2025, #485 among girls’ names; 31,212 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 31,000 Americans named Aniyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aniyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aniyah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Aniyah is “a female given name.”
Variant of Aniya.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aniyah?
#485 among girls’ names, 2025
Aniyah fell from #246 in 2015 to #485 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.73 to 0.38 per 1,000.
1,825 babies in 2009, the peak
Aniyah peaked in 2009, when 1,825 girls were given it, #181 among girls’ names. The 618 births of 2025 are 34% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 618 | #485 | 0.38 |
| 2024 | 683 | #458 | 0.42 |
| 2023 | 828 | #372 | 0.52 |
| 2022 | 824 | #378 | 0.50 |
| 2021 | 968 | #338 | 0.59 |
| 2020 | 1,035 | #309 | 0.64 |
| 2019 | 1,152 | #290 | 0.69 |
| 2018 | 1,132 | #291 | 0.67 |
| 2017 | 1,118 | #291 | 0.65 |
| 2016 | 1,169 | #271 | 0.66 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,310 | #246 | 0.73 |
| 2014 | 1,499 | #225 | 0.84 |
| 2013 | 1,465 | #217 | 0.83 |
| 2012 | 1,646 | #191 | 0.93 |
| 2011 | 1,587 | #197 | 0.90 |
| 2010 | 1,739 | #177 | 1.0 |
| 2009 | 1,825 | #181 | 1.0 |
| 2008 | 1,824 | #184 | 1.0 |
| 2007 | 1,687 | #205 | 0.88 |
| 2006 | 1,547 | #222 | 0.81 |
| 2005 | 1,481 | #231 | 0.80 |
| 2004 | 1,102 | #296 | 0.60 |
| 2003 | 886 | #350 | 0.48 |
| 2002 | 700 | #415 | 0.39 |
| 2001 | 491 | #541 | 0.27 |
| 2000 | 320 | #727 | 0.18 |
| 1999 | 231 | #912 | 0.13 |
| 1998 | 135 | #1,311 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 80 | #1,844 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 45 | #2,716 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 34 | #3,287 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,525 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,086 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,547 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,325 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aniyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aniyah has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 35 years of records.
Girls and boys named Aniyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aniyah, and how old are they?
31,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 31,212 Americans ever recorded as Aniyah. The median Aniyah alive today is 15 years old; half are between 9 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 19,849 people named Aniyah (19,813 women and girls, 36 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 26,325 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% 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 | 123 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 17,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 13,700 |
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 Aniyah born?
The states with the most babies named Aniyah are Texas, California and Florida, with 30% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 72 | #461 | 0.9× |
| California | 52 | #607 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 51 | #359 | 1.3× |
| New York | 35 | #483 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 33 | #336 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 29 | #384 | 1.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 21 | #490 | 1.2× |
| North Carolina | 21 | #511 | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 18 | #542 | 1.2× |
| Washington | 18 | #392 | 0.4× |
Where Aniyah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aniyah is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1991 it was given 1.8 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 Aniyah 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 101,581 babies since 1880, Aniyah is the most given (31% of them). In 2025 it was given to 618 of their 3,300 babies (19%), the third 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 Aniyah
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 Aniyah and names like it
- Compare Aniyah and AnyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAniyah peaked in 2009.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aniyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Aniyah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Aniyah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.