Kaneesha
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kaneesha has been given to 482 babies in the U.S. since 1977. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1990, with 175 recorded.
Babies named Kaneesha, 2001
1 in 340,000
Kaneesha over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Kaneesha?
Kaneesha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2001, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2001
- 1 in 340,000
- 11 of 3,742,181 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 164,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2001
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 235,809 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kaneesha sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2001 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 235,809 children born in 2001 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kaneesha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kaneeshas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kaneesha was born before 1990 — so the typical Kaneesha is around 35 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 77.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 482
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 77.6% of all recorded uses (374).
Is Kaneesha rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1990 (175)
- Years since peak
- 35
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 91.4% average annual change
Spellings of Kaneesha
Kaneesha is not the most common spelling — Tanesha is, with 17.3% against Kaneesha's 1.6%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Kaneesha is used
Across 1910–2025, Kaneesha was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 439,050 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Alabama1 in 100,000
- 2Georgia1 in 100,000
- 3Louisiana1 in 100,000
- 4Mississippi1 in 100,000
- 5Florida1 in —
- 6Illinois1 in —
- 7Maryland1 in —
- 8North Carolina1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Kaneesha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kaneesha around the world
Where Kaneesha ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- Ireland1996–1996#534in 1996
- Canada1996–1996#2,558in 1996
- South Australia1993–2012#871in 2012
Popularity data from Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Kaneesha by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kaneesha
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kaneesha
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.