Waniya
17
Babies in 2024
+113%
10-year change
2021
Peak · 17
+70%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Waniya
Waniya is a rising UK girl's name. Registrations in 2024 (17) are up 113% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
Waniya reached its peak in 2021, when 17 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #1,692 for UK girls that year. Today's count is broadly in line with the peak.
Across 18 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 185 girls have been officially registered with the name Waniya in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 134 girls were registered with the name, starting from 8 in 2014 and ending at 17 in 2024.