Joniyah

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — four syllables, given to 6 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
6
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Joniyah by the numbers

Joniyah was given to 6 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 23 babies in 2008, making it a 2000s name.

What we can tell you about Joniyah

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

  • Janiyah499 in the US (2017)
  • Jeniyah14 in the US (2017)
  • Jniyah12 in the US (2017)
  • Joliyah5 in the US (2017)
  • JaniyaGod is gracious; a form of Jane184 in the US (2017)
  • Janiahgarden, paradise; a form of Jannah109 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Joniyah

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