Kaniela

Boys' name

Form of Daniela

Kaniela has been given to 28 babies in the U.S. since 1989. 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 1989, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Kaniela, 2019

1 in 694,000

Kaniela over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kaniela: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Daniela

the Bible

What Kaniela means

Kaniela is a form of Daniela.

Origin, language, and formation

Kaniela is used in Hawaiian. Its origins include the Bible.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Daniela.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 28 boys were recorded with the name Kaniela between 1989 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1989; its best national rank was #6,575 in 1989.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Kaniela?

Kaniela had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019: 1 in 694,000; 5 of 3,472,229 births
Among boys only: 1 in 359,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2019: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 481,354 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Kaniela sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kaniela. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kanielas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kaniela was born before 2008 — so the typical Kaniela is around 17 today.

Median birth year: 2008; About 17 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 39.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 75.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 28; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 39.3% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Kaniela 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 1989 (7)
Years since peak: 36; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #6,575; 1989

Spellings of Kaniela

Kaniela is not the most common spelling — Daniel is, with 99.7% against Kaniela's <0.01%.

Daniel99.7%1,982,812
Angela0.11%2,135
Janiel0.05%900
Daniell0.04%836
Daniele0.04%780
Yaniel0.03%622
Kaniela<0.01%28

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 Kaniela is used

Across 1910–2025, Kaniela was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 56,631 across all states with data.

22 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Hawaii1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Kaniela has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kaniela by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #6,575; 1989
Peak year: 1989; 7 that year
First recorded: 1989
Last recorded: 2019
All-time count: 28
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Kaniela

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Kannyn Kanelo Kanaloa Kaneki Samuela Kanishk Kanavis Kanyen Kansas Kanyae Kanard Kanish Kaname Kannin Manuela Kanari Kantrell Kanya Taniela Kanichi Kaniala Kandhan Kanekoa Kannen

Sibling names for Kaniela

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Stephani Ashli Felisha Jalisa Britany Chantelle Leandra Lissette

For a brother

Elizabeth Garrick Lauren Hakeem Demario Jerrell Arron Laron

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