Saniya
Saniya was given to 73 girls in 2025, #2,453 among girls’ names; 6,985 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,930 Americans named Saniya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 13 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Saniya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Saniya?
#2,453 among girls’ names, 2025
Saniya fell from #1,352 in 2015 to #2,453 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 98.6 to 45.4 per million.
655 babies in 2007, the peak
Saniya peaked in 2007, when 655 girls were given it, #494 among girls’ names. The 73 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 73 | #2,453 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 69 | #2,582 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 73 | #2,464 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 85 | #2,225 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 109 | #1,847 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 106 | #1,848 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 142 | #1,526 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 143 | #1,530 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 186 | #1,272 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | 192 | #1,269 | 0.11 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 176 | #1,352 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 230 | #1,109 | 0.13 |
| 2013 | 276 | #925 | 0.16 |
| 2012 | 304 | #880 | 0.17 |
| 2011 | 367 | #751 | 0.21 |
| 2010 | 491 | #598 | 0.28 |
| 2009 | 556 | #546 | 0.30 |
| 2008 | 601 | #512 | 0.32 |
| 2007 | 655 | #494 | 0.34 |
| 2006 | 578 | #524 | 0.30 |
| 2005 | 469 | #607 | 0.25 |
| 2004 | 448 | #614 | 0.24 |
| 2003 | 241 | #965 | 0.13 |
| 2002 | 146 | #1,334 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 110 | #1,657 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 33 | #3,863 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 36 | #3,490 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,919 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,424 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,684 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,610 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 6 | #13,075 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,933 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,765 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,749 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,811 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Saniya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Saniya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Saniya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Saniya, and how old are they?
6,930 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 6,985 Americans ever recorded as Saniya. The median Saniya alive today is 17 years old; half are between 13 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 5,371 people named Saniya (5,357 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,448 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 | 52 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,030 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,850 |
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 Saniya born?
The states with the most babies named Saniya are New York, Florida and Virginia, with 68% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Virginia is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 9 | #1,506 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 6 | #2,111 | 1.3× |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,163 | 1.7× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,743 | 2.1× |
| California | 5 | #3,456 | 0.4× |
Where Saniya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Saniya is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1987 it was given 2.1 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 Saniya 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 32,615 babies since 1880, Saniya is the second most given (21% of them). In 2025 it was given to 73 of their 600 babies (12%), 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 Saniya
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 Saniya and names like it
- Compare Saniya and SaniyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSaniya peaked in 2007.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Saniya since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Saniya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Saniya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.