Lanyah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- LAN-ya
- US rank, 2025
- #8,858 for girls
Lanyah is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 8,858th for girls in the US (11 babies).
Where does Lanyah come from?
Spelling of Lanya
Meaning borrowed from Lanya.
Is Lanyah a girl's or a boy's name?
Lanyah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 11 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Lanyah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #8,858among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 11about 1 in 150,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 11 girls in the US were named Lanyah, making it the 8,858th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,541st. Its busiest year was 2010, with 39 girls. It first appears in the records in 2000.
Half of all the girls named Lanyah in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2014, the years shaded on the chart below.
Lanyah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #8,858 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,156 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,456 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,027 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,246 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,541 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,730 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,146 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,295 |
| 2016 | 7 | #12,871 |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,610 |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,890 |
| 2013 | 24 | #5,484 |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,555 |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,061 |
| 2010 | 39 | #3,888 |
| 2009 | 33 | #4,481 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,069 |
| 2007 | 36 | #4,212 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,684 |
| 2005 | 35 | #4,025 |
| 2004 | 26 | #4,945 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,050 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,240 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,344 |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,794 |
Names like Lanyah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah Kaliyah Zaniyah Hadassah Jaliyah Sariyah Zainab Safa Selah Salem Zariah Kamiyah
Names related to Lanyah
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, “Lanyah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/lanyah, updated 20 October 2026.