Leniyah

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — four syllables, given to 8 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
8
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Leniyah by the numbers

Leniyah was given to 8 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 23 babies in 2009, making it a 2000s name.

What we can tell you about Leniyah

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

  • Laniyah164 in the US (2017)
  • Leiyah6 in the US (2017)
  • Leniya6 in the US (2017)
  • Leilahnight; a form of Layla204 in the US (2017)
  • Liyahweary; a form of Leah87 in the US (2017)
  • Leiahweary; variant of Leah56 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Leniyah

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