Laniya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- luh-NY-a
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #5,237 for girls
Laniya is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 5,237th for girls in the US (24 babies).
What does Laniya mean?
Modern: spelling of Laniyah; modern coinage, perhaps Lani + -iyah
Possibly built from Lani, Hawaiian for sky or heaven, with the -iyah ending popular in modern American names.
Meaning borrowed from Laniyah.
Is Laniya a girl's or a boy's name?
Laniya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 24 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Laniya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,237among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 24about 1 in 67,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 47% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 24 girls in the US were named Laniya, making it the 5,237th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,966th. Its busiest year was 2007, with 240 girls. It first appears in the records in 1992.
2025 had fewer girls named Laniya than any year since 1997.
Half of all the girls named Laniya in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2013, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 101 girls in the US were given Laniya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,677, up from #5,237 for this spelling alone.
- Laniyah 77
- Laniya 24
Laniya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #5,237 |
| 2024 | 34 | #4,206 |
| 2023 | 32 | #4,361 |
| 2022 | 41 | #3,701 |
| 2021 | 36 | #4,011 |
| 2020 | 54 | #2,966 |
| 2019 | 56 | #2,923 |
| 2018 | 59 | #2,840 |
| 2017 | 81 | #2,283 |
| 2016 | 95 | #2,068 |
| 2015 | 117 | #1,778 |
| 2014 | 108 | #1,868 |
| 2013 | 123 | #1,695 |
| 2012 | 154 | #1,469 |
| 2011 | 166 | #1,380 |
| 2010 | 205 | #1,185 |
| 2009 | 216 | #1,163 |
| 2008 | 219 | #1,167 |
| 2007 | 240 | #1,086 |
| 2006 | 202 | #1,197 |
| 2005 | 174 | #1,281 |
| 2004 | 209 | #1,094 |
| 2003 | 129 | #1,508 |
| 2002 | 107 | #1,706 |
| 2001 | 69 | #2,300 |
| 2000 | 65 | #2,370 |
| 1999 | 53 | #2,637 |
| 1998 | 35 | #3,423 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,622 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,387 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,074 |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,771 |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,435 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,471 |
Nicknames for Laniya
- Lani 25 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Laniya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kaliyah Zaniyah Aaliyah Jaliyah Aliya Zaniya Safiya Zariah Zariya Amira Kamiyah Hadassah
Other spellings of Laniya
Names related to Laniya
More Modern names
Jayden Ailany Myla Kayden Nevaeh Jax Indie Miley Raelynn Kaiden Kehlani Alayna Caden Zayden Wrenley Mya
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, “Laniya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/laniya, updated 20 October 2026.