Laniyah
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — four syllables, given to 164 babies a year in the US.
Laniyah by the numbers
In 2025, 3 babies in England and Wales were named Laniyah. In the US, 164 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 295 babies in 2010, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Laniyah
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 Laniyah. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Laniyah
Names that are said the same way as Laniyah, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
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