Anijah
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 22 babies a year in the US.
Anijah by the numbers
Anijah was given to 22 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 104 babies in 2010, so it is a 2010s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Anijah
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
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