Zaniyah

What Zaniyah means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Zaniyah yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Down from #829 in 2015 to #833 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Zaniyah?

US: Steady: #829 in 2015, #833 now. England & Wales: Rising: up from #4103 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2023, when 384 girls got the name (#731 that year). First in the US records in 1996.

How common

• About 1 in 4,915 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 12,664 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in SC (0.55 per 1,000 girls), OK (0.54 per 1,000 girls), MD (0.5 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Zaniyah is #833 in the US and #1512 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Zaniyah were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Saniyah175 US · 3 E&W
• Saniya73 US · 4 E&W
• Zaniya72 US
• Zeniyah24 US · 9 E&W
• Zenayah13 US · 18 E&W
• Zanaya26 US · 5 E&W
• Xaniyah20 US
• Zanayah11 US · 5 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Zaniyah

Girls

• Mia#6Editor’s note Steady in the US: #6 in 2015 and #6 in 2025. About 1 in 150 US girls in the 2025 records
• Lily#18Diminutive of Lilian, possibly meaning “lily”^*
• Sophia#5“wisdom”^*
• Nyla#236Editor’s note Up from #326 in 2015 to #236 in 2025 in the US
• Rylee#137Variant of Riley, meaning “rye + clearing, meadow”^*
• Madelyn#70Editor’s note Down from #59 in 2015 to #70 in 2025 in the US

For a brother

• Owen#31Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #31 vs #170 in 2025
• Carter#45“son of Arthur”^*
• Malachi#134“my messenger”^*
• Amari#185“Does the given name have different origins?”^*
• Xander#259Diminutive of Alexander, meaning “to defend + man”^*
• Maximus#275Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1997, with 5 babies

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Zaniyah’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.