Kanishk
#12,958 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kanishk has been given to 181 babies in the U.S. since 2002. In 2025 it ranked #12,958 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 16 recorded.
Babies named Kanishk, 2025
1 in 663,000
Kanishk 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kanishk?
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 boys only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #12,958
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kanishk 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 Kanishk. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kanishks were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kanishk was born before 2013 — so the typical Kanishk is around 12 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 51.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 181
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 51.4% of all recorded uses (93).
Is Kanishk 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
- +297
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −4,571
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +94
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 31.3%
- Peak was 2010 (16)
- Years since peak
- 15
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 40.1% average annual change
Spellings of Kanishk
Kanishk is not the most common spelling — Anish is, with 71.3% against Kanishk's 4.1%.
Where Kanishk is used
Across 1910–2025, Kanishk was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,584,791 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
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. Kanishk has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kanishk around the world
Where Kanishk 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 & Wales2009–2025#5,137in 2025
- Canada2020–2020#2,945in 2020
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Kanishk by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kanishk
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kanishk
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.