Seniya
given name · Latin script
Meaning: The personal name, according to Buddhaghosa, of King Bimbisāra,1 who is almost always referred to as Seniya Bimbisāra
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/səniə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Seniya is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.3M(measured from records)
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 72M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 10 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.3M (inferred from the name graph)
143 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)The personal name, according to Buddhaghosa, of King Bimbisāra,1 who is almost always referred to as Seniya Bimbisāra. Dhammapāla says,2 however, that Bimbisāra was called Seniya either because he had a large army, or because he belonged to the S'sniya-gotta (mahatiyā senāya samannāgātatta vā Seniyagottatā vā).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Seniya counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 143 | 1 in 2.3M | 143 | — | — |
| TR Türkiye | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 72M | — | Seniya | 10 |
| SY Syria | — | — | — | Seniya | 1 |
| IN India | — | — | 11 | — | 2 |
| PL Poland | — | — | listed | — | — |
143 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; the pl-dane-pesel register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 143 | #46,524 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 16 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2008 | 15 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 15 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2011 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2004 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2003 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2010 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2006 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2014 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2002 | 8 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Seniya mean, and where does it come from?
- The personal name, according to Buddhaghosa, of King Bimbisāra,1 who is almost always referred to as Seniya Bimbisāra. Recorded by Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H).
- How do you pronounce Seniya?
- A machine transcription gives /səniə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Seniya a male or female name?
- Seniya is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Seniya have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 143 people named Seniya, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Seniya most common?
- Seniya is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.3 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Seniya?
- In the United States, the national register counted 143 people named Seniya in 2020, about 1 in 2.3 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/seniyaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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 page Mondonomo, “Seniya”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.