first name
ANIYAH
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 19,849 people named Aniyah, 69.5% reported their origin as Black, 14% as Hispanic or Latino and 10.6% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Aniyah peaked in 2009, when 1,825 babies got the name.
At least 31,212 babies have been given the name since 1991. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Aniyah by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2010s, when it ranked #507. The largest share of babies named Aniyah, 55.4%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Aniyah is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Aniyah has been most common in Delaware (2.6×), Nevada (2.3×), and Florida (2.2×), and least common in Utah (0.14×).
30,407 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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