Saniah
Saniah was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,263 among girls’ names; 1,590 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,580 Americans named Saniah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 14 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Saniah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Saniah?
#8,263 among girls’ names, 2025
Saniah fell from #5,103 in 2015 to #8,263 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 15.1 to 8.1 per million.
148 babies in 2007, the peak
Saniah peaked in 2007, when 148 girls were given it, #1,550 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,263 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,894 | 8.6 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,887 | 7.5 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,573 | 9.1 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,386 | 7.9 |
| 2020 | 32 | #4,343 | 19.8 |
| 2019 | 34 | #4,252 | 20.3 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,967 | 12.3 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,311 | 14.5 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,507 | 18.1 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 27 | #5,103 | 15.1 |
| 2014 | 43 | #3,642 | 24.1 |
| 2013 | 58 | #2,929 | 33.1 |
| 2012 | 71 | #2,561 | 40.3 |
| 2011 | 92 | #2,098 | 52.3 |
| 2010 | 115 | #1,791 | 64.7 |
| 2009 | 127 | #1,732 | 69.1 |
| 2008 | 146 | #1,572 | 77.2 |
| 2007 | 148 | #1,550 | 77.0 |
| 2006 | 129 | #1,649 | 67.9 |
| 2005 | 116 | #1,716 | 62.8 |
| 2004 | 124 | #1,591 | 67.5 |
| 2003 | 83 | #2,119 | 45.4 |
| 2002 | 52 | #2,879 | 28.9 |
| 2001 | 32 | #4,010 | 17.8 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,571 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,404 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Saniah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Saniah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Saniah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Saniah, and how old are they?
1,580 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,590 Americans ever recorded as Saniah. The median Saniah alive today is 18 years old; half are between 14 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 1,211 people named Saniah (1,208 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,488 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,240 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 337 |
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 Saniah born?
The states with the most babies named Saniah are Texas, California and New York, with 39% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 109 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| California | 106 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 94 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Florida | 74 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 71 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 59 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 49 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 44 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 35 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Virginia | 33 | not ranked | 0.8× |
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 Saniah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Saniah?
Saniah is a less common spelling of Saniyah: SSA has recorded 1,590 Saniah and 7,300 Saniyah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 35,007 babies since 1880, Saniah is the eighth most given (4.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 701 babies (1.9%), again the eighth 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 Saniah
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 Saniah and names like it
- Compare Saniah and SaniyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSaniah peaked in 2007.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Saniah since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Saniah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Saniah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.