Kaniya
#6,433 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kaniya has been given to 2,498 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #6,433 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 207 recorded.
Babies named Kaniya, 2025
1 in 184,000
Kaniya 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kaniya?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 184,000
- 18 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 89,300
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #6,433
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 127,662 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kaniya 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 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kaniya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kaniyas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kaniya was born before 2007 — so the typical Kaniya is around 18 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 59.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 91.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,498
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 59.6% of all recorded uses (1,490).
Is Kaniya 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
- +358
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,383
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −3,420
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.32×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 8.7%
- Peak was 2005 (207)
- Years since peak
- 20
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 14.4% average annual change
Spellings of Kaniya
Kaniya is not the most common spelling — Anita is, with 20.7% against Kaniya's 0.24%.
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 Kaniya is used
Across 1910–2025, Kaniya was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 78,622 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 in 20,000
- 2Maryland1 in 25,000
- 3Mississippi1 in 25,000
- 4Florida1 in 33,333
- 5North Carolina1 in 33,333
- 6South Carolina1 in 33,333
- 7Alabama1 in 50,000
- 8District of Columbia1 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. Kaniya has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kaniya by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kaniya
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Kaniya
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Kaniya, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Kaniya
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.