Kanisha
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kanisha has been given to 2,603 babies in the U.S. since 1971. 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 293 recorded.
Babies named Kanisha, 2024
1 in 669,000
Kanisha 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kanisha?
Kanisha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 669,000
- 5 of 3,342,801 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 324,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 463,412 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kanisha sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kanisha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kanishas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kanisha was born before 1990 — so the typical Kanisha is around 35 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 49.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 10.5%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,603
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 49.6% of all recorded uses (1,292).
Is Kanisha 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1990 (293)
- Years since peak
- 35
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.5% average annual change
Spellings of Kanisha
Kanisha is not the most common spelling — Alisha is, with 17.6% against Kanisha's 0.80%.
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 Kanisha is used
Across 1910–2025, Kanisha was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 89,768 across all states with data. It was least common in Oklahoma (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 in 50,000
- 2Georgia1 in 50,000
- 3Illinois1 in 50,000
- 4Louisiana1 in 50,000
- 5Michigan1 in 50,000
- 6Mississippi1 in 50,000
- 7North Carolina1 in 50,000
- 8South Carolina1 in 50,000
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. Kanisha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kanisha around the world
Where Kanisha 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.
- England & Wales1996–2022#5,670in 2022
- France2013–2013#6,901in 2013
- Canada1992–2015#3,185in 2015
- South Australia1991–2010#801in 2010
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Kanisha by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kanisha
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Kanisha
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Kanisha, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Kanisha
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.