Kaniah
#16,068 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kaniah has been given to 506 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #16,068 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 42 recorded.
Babies named Kaniah, 2025
1 in 663,000
Kaniah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kaniah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 321,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #16,068
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kaniah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kaniah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kaniahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kaniah was born before 2008 — so the typical Kaniah is around 17 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 52.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 92.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 506
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 52.8% of all recorded uses (267).
Is Kaniah 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
- −1,742
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −6,179
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,363
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.71×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 11.9%
- Peak was 2005 (42)
- Years since peak
- 20
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 38.3% average annual change
Spellings of Kaniah
Kaniah is not the most common spelling — Hannah is, with 48.9% against Kaniah's 0.05%.
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 Kaniah is used
Across 1910–2025, Kaniah was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,382,231 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 in —
- 2Georgia1 in —
- 3North Carolina1 in —
- 4New York1 in —
- 5Ohio1 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. Kaniah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kaniah around the world
Where Kaniah 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.
- South Australia2009–2009#818in 2009
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Kaniah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kaniah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kaniah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.