girls:
6.9k births since 1997
#1971 (66th percentile)
overall:
6.9k births since 1997
#3233 (58th percentile)
The name Saniyah is the #3,233 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,944 recorded births since 1997. This represents the 58.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 58.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,971 (65.5% percentile) for all time with 6,944 births since 1997.
Saniyah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1997 (first recorded for girls in 1997).
For girls, Saniyah reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 52.7% percentile (ranked #454) with 294 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 294 births per million (ranked 52.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2011, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Saniyah ranks #802 for girls (15.3% percentile) with 86 births per million, which is 29.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Saniyah".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Saniyah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 54.5% confident that Saniyah is pronounced as suh-NEE-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is sah-NEE-yuh, at 27.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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