Sanayah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- sa-NAA-ya
- Origin
- Hindi
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Sanayah is a girls' name of Hindi origin. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
Where does Sanayah come from?
Hindi: spelling of Sanaya; modern Indian name
Meaning borrowed from Sanaya.
Is Sanayah a girl's or a boy's name?
Sanayah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Sanayah in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2016, with 8 girls.
Sanayah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 7 | #3,388 |
| 2022 | 7 | #3,347 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,904 |
| 2018 | 5 | #4,204 |
| 2017 | 6 | #3,774 |
| 2016 | 8 | #3,105 |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,951 |
| 2014 | 4 | #4,888 |
How popular is Sanayah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 14,937th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 52% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Sanayah, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,919th. Its busiest year was 2009, with 24 girls. It first appears in the records in 2001.
It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Sanayah than any year since 2002.
Half of all the girls named Sanayah in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 64 girls in the US were given Sanayah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,265, up from #14,937 for this spelling alone.
- Sanaya 59
- Sanayah 5
Sanayah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,156 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,611 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,050 |
| 2021 | 11 | #8,973 |
| 2020 | 16 | #6,919 |
| 2019 | 20 | #5,982 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,801 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,295 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,443 |
| 2014 | 21 | #5,991 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,575 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,706 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,561 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,214 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,707 |
| 2008 | 23 | #5,952 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,548 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,354 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,325 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,711 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,319 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,049 |
Names like Sanayah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Ayah, Aaliyah, Sumayyah, Nusaybah, Ruqayyah, Zainab, Safiya, Hafsa, Abeeha, Safaa, Aaminah
Other spellings of Sanayah
Names related to Sanayah
Shanaya, Sanaa, Saniyah, Zanayah, Sanah, Sanya, Sayana, Sanai, Saniah
More Hindi names
Prisha, Saanvi, Meera, Riya, Jiya, Diya, Reyansh, Sai, Neev, Aarush, Rivaan, Samaira, Rishaan, Tulsi, Muskan, Rivan
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Sanayah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/sanayah, updated 20 October 2026.