Haniya
Haniya was given to 60 girls in 2025, #2,832 among girls’ names; 1,213 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,210 Americans named Haniya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Haniya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Haniya mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Haniya is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Haniya?
#2,832 among girls’ names, 2025
Haniya rose from #2,901 in 2015 to #2,832 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 33.6 to 37.3 per million.
97 babies in 2016, the peak
Haniya peaked in 2016, when 97 girls were given it, #2,042 among girls’ names. The 60 births of 2025 are 62% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 60 | #2,832 | 37.3 |
| 2024 | 70 | #2,540 | 43.2 |
| 2023 | 64 | #2,715 | 39.9 |
| 2022 | 73 | #2,472 | 44.5 |
| 2021 | 62 | #2,762 | 37.8 |
| 2020 | 78 | #2,294 | 48.3 |
| 2019 | 89 | #2,120 | 53.0 |
| 2018 | 95 | #2,052 | 55.8 |
| 2017 | 85 | #2,229 | 49.2 |
| 2016 | 97 | #2,042 | 54.7 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 60 | #2,901 | 33.6 |
| 2014 | 65 | #2,696 | 36.4 |
| 2013 | 38 | #3,952 | 21.7 |
| 2012 | 37 | #4,074 | 21.0 |
| 2011 | 35 | #4,175 | 19.9 |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,651 | 17.4 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,444 | 14.2 |
| 2008 | 23 | #6,011 | 12.2 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,915 | 9.9 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,680 | 10.0 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,643 | 8.1 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,540 | 8.2 |
| 2003 | 16 | #6,990 | 8.8 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,356 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,628 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,772 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,804 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,564 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,635 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Haniya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Haniya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Haniya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Haniya, and how old are they?
1,210 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,213 Americans ever recorded as Haniya. The median Haniya alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 775 people named Haniya (771 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 820 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 274 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 930 |
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 Haniya born?
The states with the most babies named Haniya are Illinois, Texas and New York, with 67% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 7 | #1,165 | 2.2× |
| Texas | 7 | #2,742 | 0.7× |
| New York | 6 | #1,908 | 1.8× |
| California | 5 | #3,270 | 0.6× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,251 | 0.9× |
Where Haniya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Haniya is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1997 it was given 2.2 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 Haniya 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 59,013 babies since 1880, Haniya is the third most given (2.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 60 of their 1,242 babies (4.8%), the fourth 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 Haniya
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 Haniya and names like it
- Compare Haniya and HannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sHaniya peaked in 2016.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Haniya since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Haniya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Haniya alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.