Sanyia — girls' name
266 babies named Sanyia in U.S. Social Security records since 2001, with the highest year being 2007. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
62% of everyone ever named Sanyia was born in this single decade.
31 babies were named Sanyia in 2007 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Sanyia
The Social Security Administration has registered 266 babies named Sanyia between 2001 and 2022, spanning 22 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sanyia currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 2007, when 31 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Sanyia performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 166 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Sanyia shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in North Carolina, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Sanyia in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Sanyia in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 266 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Sanyia at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Sanyia popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–2001
- Peak year (2007)
- 31
- Annual births at peak — across 22 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
266 total births across 22 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2007 with 31 births in a single year.
Sanyia by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 166 births that decade — 62% of Sanyia's all-time total
Sanyia decade highlights
- Peak decade 166 births
- Runner-up 87 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Sanyia's strongest decade
166 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 62% of all-time use.
Sanyia by state
Where Sanyia concentrates geographically — total births since 2001
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | North Carolina | | 5 | 1.9% |
5 of 266 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- North Carolina 1.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
North Carolina accounts for 1.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2001–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.