Laniyah
Laniyah was given to 77 girls in 2025, #2,364 among girls’ names; 3,704 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,680 Americans named Laniyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 9 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Laniyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Laniyah?
#2,364 among girls’ names, 2025
Laniyah fell from #1,276 in 2015 to #2,364 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.11 to 0.05 per 1,000.
295 babies in 2010, the peak
Laniyah peaked in 2010, when 295 girls were given it, #896 among girls’ names. The 77 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 77 | #2,364 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 78 | #2,355 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 105 | #1,898 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 83 | #2,266 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 120 | #1,725 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 118 | #1,719 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 106 | #1,895 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 134 | #1,605 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 165 | #1,396 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 144 | #1,556 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 191 | #1,276 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 177 | #1,337 | 0.10 |
| 2013 | 205 | #1,173 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 230 | #1,081 | 0.13 |
| 2011 | 240 | #1,039 | 0.14 |
| 2010 | 295 | #896 | 0.17 |
| 2009 | 205 | #1,216 | 0.11 |
| 2008 | 208 | #1,219 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 191 | #1,285 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 175 | #1,333 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 140 | #1,497 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 108 | #1,777 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 68 | #2,426 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 36 | #3,691 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 40 | #3,390 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,236 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,127 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,963 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,003 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,665 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Laniyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Laniyah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Laniyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Laniyah, and how old are they?
3,680 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,704 Americans ever recorded as Laniyah. The median Laniyah alive today is 14 years old; half are between 9 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 2,274 people named Laniyah (2,273 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,130 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% 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 | 6 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,980 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,690 |
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 Laniyah born?
The states with the most babies named Laniyah are Texas, Michigan and California, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 12 | #1,867 | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,150 | 1.5× |
| California | 5 | #3,338 | 0.6× |
Where Laniyah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Laniyah is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1994 it was given 1.7 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 Laniyah 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 11,936 babies since 1880, Laniyah is the most given (31% of them). In 2025 it was given to 77 of their 169 babies (46%), again the 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 Laniyah
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 Laniyah and names like it
- Compare Laniyah and LaniyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sLaniyah peaked in 2010.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Laniyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Laniyah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Laniyah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.