Daniah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- DAN-ee-a
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #10,104 for girls
Daniah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “near, close”. In 2025 it ranked 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).
What does Daniah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Dania; Arabic Daniya; also a feminine form of Daniel in some languages
“near, close”
Meaning borrowed from Dania.
Is Daniah a girl's or a boy's name?
Daniah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Daniah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,104th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 180,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 9 girls in the US were named Daniah, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,401st. Its busiest year was 2007, with 34 girls. It first appears in the records in 1990.
Half of all the girls named Daniah in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 249 girls in the US were given Daniah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #935, up from #10,104 for this spelling alone.
Daniah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,104 |
| 2024 | 13 | #7,962 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,481 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,141 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,401 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,106 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,142 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,804 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,444 |
| 2015 | 18 | #6,719 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,711 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,315 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,107 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,725 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,769 |
| 2009 | 30 | #4,804 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,011 |
| 2007 | 34 | #4,379 |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,085 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,795 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,373 |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,790 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,669 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,817 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,481 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,338 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,116 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,403 |
Names like Daniah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah, Zariah, Sariyah, Kaliyah, Zaniyah, Hadassah, Amira, Jaliyah, Samiyah, Azariah, Saniyah, Aliya
Other spellings of Daniah
Names related to Daniah
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza, Kairo
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Daniah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/daniah, updated 20 October 2026.