Janiyah

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — four syllables, given to 499 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
499
the US, 2017
Rarity
Uncommon
among names in use
US popularity
#783
up from #887
UK popularity
#1362
23 babies

How Janiyah has moved

US popularity rank, 2015–2025. Lower is more popular.
#464#715#966201520202025#783

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YearUS rank
2015#537
2016#564
2017#601
2018#657
2019#688
2020#722
2021#751
2022#893
2023#860
2024#887
2025#783

Janiyah by the numbers

In 2025, 23 babies in England and Wales were named Janiyah. In the US, 499 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in the US than in England and Wales.

Its American peak was 994 babies in 2009, making it a 2000s name.

What we can tell you about Janiyah

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 Janiyah. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • JaniyaGod is gracious; a form of Jane184 in the US (2017)
  • Janiahgarden, paradise; a form of Jannah109 in the US (2017)
  • Jaliyah479 in the US (2017)
  • Jamiyah169 in the US (2017)
  • Jariyah67 in the US (2017)
  • Jakiyah44 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Janiyah

Names that are said the same way as Janiyah, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

Names about as common as Janiyah

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