girls:
3.4k births since 1996
#2975 (48th percentile)
overall:
3.4k births since 1996
#4698 (39th percentile)
The name Zaniya is the #4,698 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,385 recorded births since 1996. This represents the 39.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 39.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,975 (47.9% percentile) for all time with 3,385 births since 1996.
Zaniya first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1996 (first recorded for girls in 1996).
For girls, Zaniya reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 26.2% percentile (ranked #729) with 124 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 124 births per million (ranked 26.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2011, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Zaniya ranks #872 for girls (7.9% percentile) with 46 births per million, which is 36.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Zaniya".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Zaniya. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 36.6% confident that Zaniya is pronounced as zuh-NEE-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is zuh-NEE-yuh, at 17.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like Z AH0 N IY1 AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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