Saniyya
- Gender
- Girl
- Origin
- Arabic
Saniyya is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “radiant”. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.
What does Saniyya mean?
Arabic: spelling of Saniyah
“radiant”
A female given name from Arabic.
Meaning borrowed from Saniyah. From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Saniyya a girl's or a boy's name?
Saniyya is a girls' name.
How popular is Saniyya in the US?
No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2007, with 18 girls. It first appears in the records in 2001.
Half of all the girls named Saniyya in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
Saniyya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 7 | #12,237 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,141 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,208 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,592 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,459 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,685 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,001 |
| 2014 | 9 | #10,949 |
| 2013 | 8 | #11,964 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,240 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,375 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,069 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,088 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,234 |
| 2005 | 12 | #8,878 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,092 |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,837 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,049 |
Names like Saniyya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Aaliyah Safiya Salma Samiyah Zahara Samira Safia Fatoumata Zainab Zaniyah Sariyah
Names related to Saniyya
More Arabic names
Muhammad Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Amir Amira Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra Hamza
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, “Saniyya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/saniyya, updated 20 October 2026.