Zaniya
Zaniya was given to 72 girls in 2025, #2,484 among girls’ names; 3,527 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,500 Americans named Zaniya 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 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zaniya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zaniya?
#2,484 among girls’ names, 2025
Zaniya fell from #1,599 in 2015 to #2,484 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 75.6 to 44.8 per million.
263 babies in 2007, the peak
Zaniya peaked in 2007, when 263 girls were given it, #1,011 among girls’ names. The 72 births of 2025 are 27% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72 | #2,484 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 67 | #2,635 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 81 | #2,287 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 70 | #2,553 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 75 | #2,414 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 90 | #2,064 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 99 | #1,970 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 106 | #1,899 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 85 | #2,235 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 102 | #1,970 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 135 | #1,599 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 142 | #1,546 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 180 | #1,307 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 186 | #1,287 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 197 | #1,223 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 223 | #1,109 | 0.13 |
| 2009 | 245 | #1,055 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 219 | #1,177 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 263 | #1,011 | 0.14 |
| 2006 | 196 | #1,233 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 174 | #1,288 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 149 | #1,402 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 129 | #1,520 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 81 | #2,108 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 70 | #2,299 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 45 | #3,116 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,182 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 14 | #7,093 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,790 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,500 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zaniya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zaniya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zaniya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zaniya, and how old are they?
3,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,527 Americans ever recorded as Zaniya. The median Zaniya alive today is 16 years old; half are between 11 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 2,249 people named Zaniya (2,248 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,072 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% 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 | 6 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,200 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,300 |
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 Zaniya born?
The states with the most babies named Zaniya are Texas, Florida and New York, with 67% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 9 | #2,384 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,883 | 1.4× |
| New York | 6 | #2,065 | 0.9× |
| California | 6 | #3,087 | 0.3× |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #924 | 0.3× |
Where Zaniya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zaniya is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1996 it was given 2.4 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 Zaniya 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 20,353 babies since 1880, Zaniya is the second most given (17% of them). In 2025 it was given to 72 of their 684 babies (11%), the third 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 Zaniya
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 Zaniya and names like it
- Compare Zaniya and ZaniyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sZaniya peaked in 2007.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zaniya since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Zaniya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Zaniya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.