Maniyah

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — four syllables, given to 16 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
16
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Maniyah by the numbers

Maniyah was given to 16 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 49 babies in 2009, making it a 2000s name.

What we can tell you about Maniyah

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

  • Mariyahof the sea or star of the sea; a form of maria246 in the US (2017)
  • Makiyahwho is like god; a respelling of Micaiah117 in the US (2017)
  • Maliyah786 in the US (2017)
  • Maiyah20 in the US (2017)
  • Masiyah20 in the US (2017)
  • Maziyah12 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Maniyah

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

Names about as common as Maniyah

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