Sanaiya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- sah-NYE-ah
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #10,913 for girls
Sanaiya is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).
Where does Sanaiya come from?
Modern: probably a variant of Sanaya or Saniyah
Is Sanaiya a girl's or a boy's name?
Sanaiya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Sanaiya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,913th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 200,000 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, 8 girls in the US were named Sanaiya, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,964th. Its busiest year was 2008, with 38 girls. It first appears in the records in 2002.
Half of all the girls named Sanaiya in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2014, the years shaded on the chart below.
Sanaiya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,913 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,551 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,188 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,237 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,201 |
| 2020 | 13 | #7,964 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,106 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,405 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,337 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 5 | #16,507 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,707 |
| 2011 | 22 | #5,932 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,600 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,225 |
| 2008 | 38 | #4,088 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,706 |
| 2006 | 33 | #4,357 |
| 2005 | 31 | #4,369 |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,204 |
| 2003 | 16 | #6,880 |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,831 |
Names like Sanaiya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zaniyah, Kaliyah, Aaliyah, Safa, Jaliyah, Safiya, Samira, Sariyah, Kamiyah, Zaliyah, Aziyah, Zaniya
Names related to Sanaiya
Saniyah, Sanai, Shanaya, Sanaa, Saniya, Sanaya, Shaniya, Sanya
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, “Sanaiya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/sanaiya, updated 20 October 2026.