Aniya is a modern American spelling — a variant of Anya (Russian) and Aniyah, ultimately from the Hebrew Channah ("grace, favor"). Aniya Smith — emerging American actress (Cobra Kai). In Sanskrit / Hindi tradition aniya is also a feminine form meaning "limitless" or "without end," giving the name parallel use in Indian-American families. The phonetic spelling Aniya is increasingly preferred by American parents seeking a softer pronunciation than the Russian Anya, and the -iya ending (matching the spelling of Maliyah, Janiyah, Sariyah) places the name within the broader 21st-century American naming pattern of -iyah / -iya endings.
Aniya does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Aniya reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.