How popular is the name Laniyah?

Laniyah ranks 1,750th among girls' names in US records, with 6,820 births since 1992. Over the past decade it accounts for 1,846.

Is Laniyah a unisex name?

No. Laniyah is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

2010, when 500 children were given the name. It has been in use for 33 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Laniya, Lanija. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.

Girl name#1,750 of girl names

Pronounced L AA1 N IY0 Y AA1 (ARPABET)

Laniyah is a girls' name, and first appears in 1992. It has been given to 6,820 children — the 1,750th most common girls' name on record.

It is falling away, down 53% on the previous decade. Its best single year was 2010, when 500 children were given it.

Two other spellings are counted in that total — Laniya and Lanija — because they are pronounced identically.

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These spellings sound identical to Laniyah and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Laniyah?: Laniyah ranks 1,750th among girls' names in US records, with 6,820 births since 1992. Over the past decade it accounts for 1,846.
Is Laniyah a unisex name?: No. Laniyah is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Laniyah most popular?: 2010, when 500 children were given the name. It has been in use for 33 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
How else is Laniyah spelled?: Laniya, Lanija. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.