Aniyah
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — four syllables, given to 1,107 babies a year in the US.
How Aniyah has moved
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| Year | US rank |
|---|---|
| 2015 | #248 |
| 2016 | #271 |
| 2017 | #290 |
| 2018 | #292 |
| 2019 | #291 |
| 2020 | #309 |
| 2021 | #338 |
| 2022 | #378 |
| 2023 | #369 |
| 2024 | #461 |
| 2025 | #485 |
Aniyah by the numbers
In 2025, 62 babies in England and Wales were named Aniyah. In the US, 1,107 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 1,824 babies in 2009, making it a 2000s name.
What we can tell you about Aniyah
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.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Aniyah. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Aliyahexalted or ascent1,897 in the US (2017)
- Anayahgod has answered; a form of Hannah156 in England and Wales (2025)
- Asiyahone who tends, caretaker64 in England and Wales (2025)
- Anaiyahgod has answered; a form of Anayah or Hannah24 in England and Wales (2025)
- Aziyahgod is my strength; a modern respelling of Azariah74 in the US (2017)
- Aaniyahgift of god; a form of Anya or Aniyah43 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Aniyah
Names that are said the same way as Aniyah, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
Names about as common as Aniyah
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