girls:
29.9k births since 1991
#816 (86th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 2005
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
29.9k births since 1991
#1473 (81st percentile)
The name Aniyah is the #1,473 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 29,886 recorded births since 1991. This represents the 81.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 81.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #816 (85.7% percentile) for all time with 29,881 births since 1991. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2005.
Aniyah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1991 (1991 for girls and 2005 for boys).
The name Aniyah has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Aniyah reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 81.7% percentile (ranked #176) with 901 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 901 births per million (ranked 81.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2012, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Aniyah ranks #345 for girls (63.6% percentile) with 472 births per million, which is 52.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Aniyah reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #873) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 2005, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2005.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Aniyah".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Aniyah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 33.3% confident that Aniyah is pronounced as uh-NEE-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-NAI-uh, at 27.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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