Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Saniya is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 92nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: brilliant, majestic, exalted, eminent, splendid; feminine of Sani.
rarermore common
YEYemen1 in 15◐
CZCzechia1 in 282
TRTürkiye1 in 416
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
Locally spelled Sanain FR France, PK Pakistan, ES Spain and 2 more, Shaunain US United States, CA Canada, AU Australia and 1 more, Jonain PH Philippines, FI Finland, BR Brazil and 1 more and Санияin RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
brilliant, majestic, exalted, eminent, splendid; feminine of Sani
Sources 1
A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
Hindi39K56%
English5.5K8%
3.2K5%
Bangla3.1K5%
Sinhala1.7K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
Name
Records
Note
Hindi
38,584
56%
English
5,479
8%
3,163
5%
Bangla
3,100
5%
Sinhala
1,748
3%
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other names spelled this way◐
Saniya is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.
a separate given name3.5K records spelled Saniya2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in India, Ethiopia, United States
Also written Sanīya
French given name1.7K records spelled Saniya9 spellings in the group
Most recorded in France, United States, India, Spain
Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese
Also written Sâniya, Sanïya, Sanîya, Sáñíyá, Šẳnĩyẳ
Turkish given name1.5K records spelled Saniya8 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan
Languages: Turkish, Turkmen, Azerbaijani
Also written Şaniya, Şaniýa
Indonesian given name1.5K records spelled Saniya3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in India, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia
Languages: Indonesian, Malay
Also written Şaniya
Amharic given name116 records spelled Saniya3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in India, Ethiopia, Kazakhstan, Malaysia
Also written ሳኒያ, Şaniya
29 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.
Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.
Other recorded senses●
Saniya is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, a4. (saniyyah): brilliant, majestic, exalted, eminent, splendid; fem. of Sani
as a name·A Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, brilliant, majestic, exalted, eminent, splendid; feminine of Sani
as a name·A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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Saniya in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1920–2016
Year
records
1920
2
1921
1
1922
2
1923
2
1924
1
1925
2
1926
2
1927
5
1929
6
1930
5
1931
2
1932
16
1933
3
1934
4
1935
9
1936
8
1937
20
1938
5
1939
15
1940
12
1941
19
1942
32
1943
15
1944
14
1945
23
1946
14
1947
49
1948
21
1949
36
1950
25
1951
29
1952
59
1953
21
1954
40
1955
52
1956
35
1957
69
1958
33
1959
64
1960
52
1961
42
1962
74
1963
51
1964
65
1965
77
1966
50
1967
130
1968
62
1969
110
1970
76
1971
62
1972
125
1973
68
1974
81
1975
77
1976
90
1977
94
1978
69
1979
98
1980
63
1981
59
1982
62
1983
79
1984
96
1985
93
1986
93
1987
102
1988
77
1989
92
1990
93
1991
78
1992
80
1993
123
1994
71
1995
70
1996
42
1997
48
1998
17
1999
3
2008
4
2010
4
2011
1
2012
3
2013
2
2014
6
2015
6
2016
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INnaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 87 years between 1920–2016. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 282 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
How common is the name Saniya?
We estimate roughly 258 thousand people bear Saniya (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Saniya have the most bearers?
Saniya is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled soni.
How common is Saniya compared with other names?
In India, Saniya is the 92nd most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Saniya a male or female name?
Saniya is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
What does the name Saniya mean?
Recorded meaning: brilliant, majestic, exalted, eminent, splendid; feminine of Sani
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About this data
● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this pageMondonomo, “Saniya” — the 92nd most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.