Girls' name · since 2002
Ganiya
Since 2002, U.S. Social Security records show 30 babies named Ganiya, peaking in 2007. See the year-by-year trend, decade totals, and state rankings below, sourced from federal birth data.
- #40,889 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 30
- born since 2002
- 2000s
- peak decade
Ganiya is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 30 have been recorded since 2002.
Ganiya has 30 recorded births among girls since 2002, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2002 to 2018.
- #40,889 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 30 born since 2002
- 2000s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Ganiya ranks #40,889 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 30 born since 2002, peaking in the 2000s.
- #40,889 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 30
- born since 2002
- 2000s
- peak decade
Ganiya's 30 recorded births place it above 43.1% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Ganiya's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Ganiya's full recorded timeline at 2007, 67% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 33% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 2002, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2007 peak of 10 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Ganiya popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2002–2018
- Peak year (2007)
- 10
- Annual births at peak, across 17 years of records
Ganiya by decade
2000s is the heaviest window (25 births, 83% of the file).
2000s was Ganiya's strongest decade.
25 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 83% of all-time use.
Ganiya births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s
2000s
25 births
- 2010s 5
2010s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 25 births (83% of all-time use).
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- Ganiya's decade-level peak was the 2000s (25 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 2010s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Ganiya: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2007)
Similar record span (~16 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2002–2018 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Ganiya draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.