Aniyah
31,212 recorded births · active 1991–2025
Compare Aniyah →Living-age distribution
The median living Aniyah is 15. If you meet a Aniyah, there's about a 70% chance they're between 6 and 21 years old.
Popularity arc
Peak Aniyah: 2009. Down 51% from peak.
Projected: the dashed 10-year forecast (Holt damped-trend exponential smoothing, fit to recent years), with a shaded 95% interval.
Gender balance
Aniyah is almost always given to female babies — 100% female.
Rarity
Aniyah ranks #1,468 out of 105,966 names ever recorded by the SSA.
Geographic fingerprint
Aniyahs are 1.5x more common in the South than the national average.
Predictive modeling
Three statistical models, all fit to Aniyah's own SSA history plus the historical behavior of every other name in the dataset.
Peak popularity prediction
Aniyah's modeled peak was #387 in 2010 — its trend isn't projected to beat that.
Projects the trend forward, then converts share into rank using this year's popularity distribution.
This forecasts Aniyah's share of births by fitting a damped-trend model to its last 35 years of data and projecting 10 years forward with a widening uncertainty band. Each projected share is then translated into a rank by comparing it against 2025's actual name-popularity distribution — so the model implicitly assumes the overall shape of that distribution doesn't shift much over the forecast window. Its trend is projected to stay below its historic best over the next 10 years, so the model treats 2010 as its peak. Milestone probabilities come from how much of each year's uncertainty band clears that milestone's rank, combined across years as if they were independent — which slightly overstates the odds for names sitting right at a threshold, since a good year is usually followed by another good year rather than an independent coin flip.Name life-cycle stage
A rule-based classifier over recent growth, momentum, and peak proximity.
Births have shrunk about 10% a year on average over the last 5 years, and the decline is accelerating.
Popularity survival model
Once a name reaches a rank tier, how long does it typically stay there before falling out?
Built from a Kaplan-Meier survival curve: every historical run any name has ever had above this tier, with runs still ongoing today counted as still in progress rather than as an exit.Aniyah isn't currently in the Top 100 tier. Estimated chance of entering it in the forecast window: 0%.
If Aniyah enters Top 100, chance it's still there after:
Names that do enter Top 100 have historically stayed a median of ~19 years. Based on 668 historical Top 100 runs across every name in the dataset.