Raniah
Raniah was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,534 among girls’ names; 401 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Raniah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Raniah?
#14,534 among girls’ names, 2025
Raniah fell from #8,339 in 2015 to #14,534 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.8 to 3.7 per million.
33 babies in 2008, the peak
Raniah peaked in 2008, when 33 girls were given it, #4,620 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,534 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,915 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,529 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,937 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,401 | 6.8 |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,180 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,503 | 7.6 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,674 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,766 | 7.3 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,339 | 7.8 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 17 | #7,234 | 9.5 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,476 | 8.0 |
| 2012 | 22 | #6,071 | 12.5 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,889 | 13.1 |
| 2010 | 32 | #4,579 | 18.0 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,344 | 14.7 |
| 2008 | 33 | #4,620 | 17.5 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,780 | 16.1 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,777 | 10.0 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,412 | 8.7 |
| 2004 | 17 | #7,020 | 9.3 |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,121 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 10 | #10,062 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,217 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,820 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Raniah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Raniah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Raniah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Raniah, and how old are they?
An estimated 398 Americans named Raniah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 11 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 363 people named Raniah (358 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 350 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Raniah?
Raniah is a less common spelling of Rania: SSA has recorded 401 Raniah and 3,135 Rania since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 17,613 babies since 1880, Raniah is the eighth most given (2.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 273 babies (2.2%), the seventh 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 Raniah
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 Raniah and names like it
- Compare Raniah and RaniaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sRaniah peaked in 2008.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Raniah since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Raniah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Raniah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.