Kaniyah
#2,975 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kaniyah has been given to 2,369 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #2,975 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 147 recorded.
Babies named Kaniyah, 2025
1 in 59,200
Kaniyah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kaniyah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 59,200
- 56 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 28,700
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #2,975
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 41,035 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kaniyah 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 41,035 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kaniyah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kaniyahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kaniyah was born before 2011 — so the typical Kaniyah is around 14 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 41.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 97.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,369
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 41.3% of all recorded uses (978).
Is Kaniyah 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
- +1,026
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −494
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −726
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.67×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 38.1%
- Peak was 2010 (147)
- Years since peak
- 15
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 13.8% average annual change
Spellings of Kaniyah
Kaniyah is not the most common spelling — Aaliyah is, with 20.9% against Kaniyah's 0.45%.
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 Kaniyah is used
Across 2016–2025, Kaniyah was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 29,388 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in 100,000).
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.
Kaniyah around the world
Where Kaniyah 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 & Wales2022–2022#5,670in 2022
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Kaniyah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kaniyah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Kaniyah
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Kaniyah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Kaniyah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.