Saniyah
Girl · Arabic
Saniyah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “radiant”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies) and 1,279th for girls in the US (175 babies).
What does Saniyah mean?
Arabic
“radiant”
A female given name from Arabic.
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Saniyah a girl's or a boy's name?
Saniyah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK and 175 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Saniyah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,990among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3about 1 in 93,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 44% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Saniyah, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,744th. Its busiest year was 2009, with 24 girls.
Half of all the girls named Saniyah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2005 and 2013, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Saniyah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 6 | #3,766 |
| 2022 | 4 | #4,870 |
| 2021 | 5 | #4,148 |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 5 | #4,214 |
| 2018 | 7 | #3,344 |
| 2017 | 7 | #3,395 |
| 2016 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2015 | 5 | #4,294 |
| 2014 | 9 | #2,809 |
| 2013 | 11 | #2,454 |
| 2012 | 13 | #2,210 |
| 2011 | 24 | #1,379 |
| 2010 | 13 | #2,103 |
| 2009 | 24 | #1,330 |
| 2008 | 18 | #1,620 |
| 2007 | 9 | #2,543 |
| 2006 | 7 | #2,940 |
| 2005 | 12 | #1,912 |
| 2004 | 9 | #2,226 |
| 2003 | 9 | #2,109 |
| 2002 | 10 | #1,874 |
| 2001 | 10 | #1,832 |
| 2000 | 6 | #2,554 |
| 1999 | 6 | #2,559 |
| 1998 | 8 | #2,110 |
| 1997 | 1 | #5,110 |
How popular is Saniyah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #1,279among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 175about 1 in 9,200 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadydown 21% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 175 girls in the US were named Saniyah, making it the 1,279th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,276th. Its busiest year was 2009, with 595 girls. It first appears in the records in 1997.
Half of all the girls named Saniyah in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 248 girls in the US were given Saniyah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #939, up from #1,279 for this spelling alone.
- Saniyah 175
- Saniya 73
Saniyah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 175 | #1,279 |
| 2024 | 176 | #1,305 |
| 2023 | 150 | #1,465 |
| 2022 | 180 | #1,309 |
| 2021 | 171 | #1,317 |
| 2020 | 175 | #1,276 |
| 2019 | 176 | #1,302 |
| 2018 | 286 | #934 |
| 2017 | 247 | #1,042 |
| 2016 | 237 | #1,088 |
| 2015 | 292 | #930 |
| 2014 | 313 | #873 |
| 2013 | 324 | #825 |
| 2012 | 412 | #683 |
| 2011 | 468 | #619 |
| 2010 | 507 | #580 |
| 2009 | 595 | #507 |
| 2008 | 564 | #545 |
| 2007 | 528 | #568 |
| 2006 | 396 | #715 |
| 2005 | 327 | #795 |
| 2004 | 273 | #890 |
| 2003 | 161 | #1,290 |
| 2002 | 79 | #2,123 |
| 2001 | 51 | #2,840 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,156 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,710 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,579 |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,719 |
Names like Saniyah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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Other spellings of Saniyah
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