Sanyah
- Gender
- Girl
- Origin
- Slavic
Sanyah is a girls' name of Slavic origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.
What does Sanyah mean?
Slavic: spelling of Sanya
A female given name from Russian.
Meaning borrowed from Sanya. From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Sanyah a girl's or a boy's name?
Sanyah is a girls' name.
How popular is Sanyah 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 46 girls. It first appears in the records in 2002.
Half of all the girls named Sanyah in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2013, the years shaded on the chart below.
Sanyah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #12,156 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,586 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,201 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,137 |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,532 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,459 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,685 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,408 |
| 2015 | 12 | #8,926 |
| 2014 | 12 | #8,961 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,744 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,140 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,432 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,769 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,225 |
| 2008 | 34 | #4,447 |
| 2007 | 46 | #3,530 |
| 2006 | 31 | #4,575 |
| 2005 | 26 | #4,954 |
| 2004 | 32 | #4,283 |
| 2003 | 13 | #7,993 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,240 |
Names like Sanyah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah Safa Sariyah Zaniyah Kaliyah Saniyah Jaliyah Salma Samiyah Hadassah Salem Zainab
Names related to Sanyah
More Slavic names
Mila Milan Vera Mira Nadia Milana Rayna Zora Milena Raina Damir Lev Siyana Vlad Lilyana Yuri
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, “Sanyah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/sanyah, updated 20 October 2026.