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The first name 
Zaniya

Zaniya is a first name for girls.

Zaniya is a well-known but special name!

Zaniya is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,638 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,637 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Zaniya.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Zaniya

Zaniya -
at home in half of America

The odds of living in the same state as someone with the first name Zaniya are about the same as betting on heads or tails in a coin toss. This girl’s name is quite popular, but not equally so throughout the entire USA. You can meet girls and women with the name Zaniya in 22 states – that is about every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida or Georgia. In relation to the number of residents, the most women and girls with the first name Zaniya live in North Carolina – here, one in 16,522 bears this beautiful name. In comparison, if we look at all living women and girls in the whole country, only one in 64,265 will turn around if you call her first name Zaniya.

Zaniya has 6 letters 
and begins with a Z

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter Z is quite rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 1.9% of all common girls' names in the US begin with Z. By the way, the most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.

With six letters, the name Zaniya is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that with 1.9% of all girls' names beginning with a Z, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are girls' names with Z that are quite popular, the most common at present is Zoe.

Other names with 
Z, a, n, i, y and a

If you take all the letters in the name Zaniya – Z, a, n, i, y and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Zaiyan or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Zaniya

If your name is Zaniya and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Zaniya

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Zaniya, you can simply say:

Zebra

Apple

Nut

Igloo

Yoyo

Apple

This is how the name Zaniya is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Zaniya in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Zaniya

Zaniya

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Zaniya

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Zaniya is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

Z
A
N
I
Y
A

Have you ever waved the name Zaniya

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

Z
A
N
I
Y
A

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Zaniya sounds like this: