Sanya
Sanya is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 22 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 220.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 2007108 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1957
- 1,923people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,923 girls have been named Sanya in the United States since 1957, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2007, with 108 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2005, and the 2000s alone account for 38%.
By decade
In 2007, its biggest year
Sanya was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2007 were Emily, Isabella, Emma, Ava and Madison. See all of 2007.
Names that rose and fell with Sanya
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Aixapeak 2007
- Angeleepeak 2008
- Melanniepeak 2006
- Malanapeak 2007
- Meapeak 2005
- Malenapeak 2004
- Ammypeak 2005
- Majapeak 2009
Other spellings in the data
- Shania15,744 ever
- Saniyah7,122 ever
- Saniya6,911 ever
- Shaniya6,513 ever
- Shaniyah3,031 ever
- Shanya2,156 ever
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.