Aniyah

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Aniyah: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Aniyah: Recorded since 2003, its highest recorded position is #337, reached in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
25times a registrar ranked it
22years from first to last
#337highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2003–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2003	#4373
2005	#2438
2006	#2509
2007	#1854
2008	#2022
2009	#1083
2010	#840
2011	#937
2012	#887
2013	#684
2014	#547
2015	#532
2016	#527
2017	#514
2018	#503
2019	#409
2020	#525
2021	#603
2022	#526
2023	#506
2024	#503

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

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What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 21 of the 22 years from 2003 to 2024.

In 2024: #337 among girls in Northern Ireland, #503 among girls in England and Wales, #790 among girls in Scotland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 2003–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2003
First recorded at #4373 among girls in England and Wales in 2003 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2019–2024
Highest recorded position: #337 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2024 (recorded 2019–2024).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #503 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Aniyah appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 21 years beginning in 2003, and has registered 1,133 births with the name.

Aniyah across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Aniyah's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#4373 (2003)	#409 (2019)	#503 (2024)	21 of 22	1,133 (2003–2024)	103 (2019)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#424 (2019)	#337 (2024)	#337 (2024)	3 of 6	10 (2019–2024)	4 (2024)

Aniyah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Aniyah in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	73	6 of 10	12
2010s	690	10 of 10	69
2020sbusiest	370	5 of 10	74

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 74 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2019 and 2020, when recorded births fell by 27, from 103 to 76.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Aniyah appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 2003 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #337 in Northern Ireland in 2024.

Aniyah's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#503	78	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#506	78	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#526	74	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#603	64	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#525	76	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#409	103	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#503	85	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#514	83	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#527	81	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#532	81	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#547	77	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#684	58	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#887	42	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#937	38	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#840	42	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1083	29	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2022	12	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1854	13	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2509	8	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2438	8	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#4373	3	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#337	4	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#397	3	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#424	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#790	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 2003 and 2024, ranked in 21 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #337, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 103 births, registered in England and Wales in 2019.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2019, and 21 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Anita · #4, 81y
Aniya · #802, 23y
Anja · #63, 70y
Anjali · #410, 30y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Liepa · #336, 18y
Patricija · #336, 19y
Arden · #339, 24y
Colt · #339, 25y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Adalyn · #337, 15y
Cushla · #337, 7y
Araya · #336, 21y
Bella-Rose · #336, 17y

Aniyah was ranked #337 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Aniyah and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Aniyah without appearing here.

Aniyah moved ahead of

Pauline Compare
In 2008 they stood at #2022 and #1718 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #1083 and #3936.
Cecilie Compare
In 2004 they stood at #4373 and #3099 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #2438 and #4798.
Jeanette Compare
In 2004 they stood at #4373 and #2727 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #2438 and #4798.
Diane Compare
In 2008 they stood at #2022 and #2022 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #1083 and #3031.

Moved ahead of Aniyah

Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #409 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #525 and #460.
Blake Compare
In 2019 they stood at #409 and #432 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #525 and #463.

Moved the opposite way to Aniyah

Abigail Compare
Between 2003 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aniyah went from #4373 to #503 while Abigail went from #20 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 2003 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aniyah went from #4373 to #503 while Aimee went from #51 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 2003 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aniyah went from #4373 to #503 while Aisling went from #637 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 2003 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aniyah went from #4373 to #503 while Alex went from #230 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Aniyah

Ada Compare
Between 2003 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aniyah went from #4373 to #503 and Ada from #1628 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 2003 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aniyah went from #4373 to #503 and Alma from #2727 to #234.
Amelia Compare
Between 2003 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aniyah went from #4373 to #503 and Amelia from #21 to #2.
Aria Compare
Between 2003 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aniyah went from #4373 to #503 and Aria from #1472 to #35.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 2003 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #337 in Northern Ireland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Aniyah

Aniyah at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Aniyah across 2 official records

Aniyah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Aniyah at a glance

Aniyah across 2 official records

Aniyah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Also first recorded in the 2000s

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Aniyah and the names beside it

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