Raniyah
Raniyah was given to 58 girls in 2025, #2,923 among girls’ names; 2,185 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,170 Americans named Raniyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 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 Raniyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Raniyah?
#2,923 among girls’ names, 2025
Raniyah fell from #1,790 in 2015 to #2,923 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 65.5 to 36.1 per million.
144 babies in 2010, the peak
Raniyah peaked in 2010, when 144 girls were given it, #1,555 among girls’ names. The 58 births of 2025 are 40% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 58 | #2,923 | 36.1 |
| 2024 | 46 | #3,445 | 28.4 |
| 2023 | 56 | #3,008 | 34.9 |
| 2022 | 64 | #2,716 | 39.0 |
| 2021 | 56 | #2,990 | 34.1 |
| 2020 | 80 | #2,253 | 49.5 |
| 2019 | 66 | #2,644 | 39.3 |
| 2018 | 84 | #2,213 | 49.4 |
| 2017 | 109 | #1,874 | 63.1 |
| 2016 | 104 | #1,939 | 58.7 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 117 | #1,790 | 65.5 |
| 2014 | 122 | #1,724 | 68.3 |
| 2013 | 136 | #1,585 | 77.5 |
| 2012 | 124 | #1,697 | 70.4 |
| 2011 | 143 | #1,539 | 81.3 |
| 2010 | 144 | #1,555 | 81.0 |
| 2009 | 116 | #1,846 | 63.1 |
| 2008 | 129 | #1,730 | 68.2 |
| 2007 | 123 | #1,759 | 64.0 |
| 2006 | 86 | #2,246 | 45.2 |
| 2005 | 69 | #2,514 | 37.3 |
| 2004 | 49 | #3,160 | 26.7 |
| 2003 | 38 | #3,712 | 20.8 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,621 | 11.7 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,553 | 9.4 |
| 2000 | 15 | #7,066 | 8.3 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,127 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,642 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Raniyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Raniyah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Raniyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Raniyah, and how old are they?
2,170 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,185 Americans ever recorded as Raniyah. The median Raniyah alive today is 13 years old; half are between 9 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,325 people named Raniyah (1,324 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,832 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% 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 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,070 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,090 |
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 Raniyah born?
The states with the most babies named Raniyah are Ohio, Texas and Florida, with 78% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 7 | #1,241 | 1.6× |
| Texas | 6 | #3,212 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,413 | 2.0× |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,268 | 1.1× |
Where Raniyah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Raniyah is most over-represented in Florida: since 1990 it was given 2.0 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 Raniyah 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 8,980 babies since 1880, Raniyah is the second most given (24% of them). In 2025 it was given to 58 of their 196 babies (30%), again the second 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 Raniyah
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 Raniyah and names like it
- Compare Raniyah and RaniaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRaniyah peaked in 2010.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Raniyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Raniyah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Raniyah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.