Shaniyah
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — four syllables, given to 48 babies a year in the US.
Shaniyah by the numbers
Shaniyah was given to 48 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 222 babies in 2007, so it is a 2000s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Shaniyah
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 Shaniyah. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Shaniyah
Names that are said the same way as Shaniyah, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
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