Anayah is a variant of Anaya, a name of uncertain origin that is usually explained either from the Arabic inaya, "care" or "protection", or from the Hebrew Anaiah, "God answers". The ending with h follows the pattern of Aaliyah and Aniyah, which were popular in the same families. Anayah climbed from number 1525 in 2020 to number 1062 in 2024 and entered the top 1000 for the first time in 2025 at number 913.