How popular is the name Saniyah?

Saniyah ranks 1,154th among girls' names in US records, with 14,051 births since 1987. Over the past decade it accounts for 3,367.

Is Saniyah a unisex name?

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

2009, when 1,151 children were given the name. It has been in use for 38 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

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

Girl name#1,154 of girl names

Pronounced S AE1 N IH0 Y AA1 (ARPABET)

Saniyah is a girls' name, and first appears in 1987. It has been given to 14,051 children — the 1,154th most common girls' name on record.

It is falling away, down 63% on the previous decade. Its best single year was 2009, when 1,151 children were given it.

Two other spellings are counted in that total — Saniya and Sanija — because they are pronounced identically.

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These spellings sound identical to Saniyah 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 Saniyah?: Saniyah ranks 1,154th among girls' names in US records, with 14,051 births since 1987. Over the past decade it accounts for 3,367.
Is Saniyah a unisex name?: No. Saniyah is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Saniyah most popular?: 2009, when 1,151 children were given the name. It has been in use for 38 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
How else is Saniyah spelled?: Saniya, Sanija. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.