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Kanya

Girls' name

Young woman

Kanya has been given to 618 babies in the U.S. since 1972. 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 2007, with 46 recorded.

Babies named Kanya, 2023

1 in 474,000

Kanya over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kanya: meaning, origin, and history

Young woman

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kanya means

Kanya means “young woman”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Kanya is used in Thai.

Another recorded pronunciation is /kan˧.ˈjaː˧/ for Kanya.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 593 girls were recorded with the name Kanya between 1972 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 46 in 2007; its best national rank was #3,564 in 2007.

In the United States, 25 boys were recorded with the name Kanya between 2004 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 20 in 2004; its best national rank was #4,343 in 2004.

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.

How common is Kanya?

Kanya had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 229,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
328,234 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kanya sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 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 328,234 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kanya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kanyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kanya was born before 2004 — so the typical Kanya is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
48.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
593
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 48.2% of all recorded uses (286).

Is Kanya 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2007 (46)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,564
2007

Spellings of Kanya

Kanya is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 25.9% against Kanya's 0.02%.

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 Kanya is used

Across 1910–2025, Kanya was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 796,986 across all states with data. It was least common in Mississippi (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in —
  2. 2Georgia1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Mississippi1 in —

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. Kanya has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kanya around the world

Where Kanya 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 & Wales
    2009–2015
    #5,730
    in 2015
  • France
    2009–2024
    #5,534
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Kanya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,564
2007
Peak year
2007
46 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
593
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,343
2004
Peak year
2004
20 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2006
All-time count
25
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kanya

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

KannaKaniahKanaKananiKanylaKanaiKaniaKanonZanyaDunyaAnnyaKansasKanikaKaniKanayaLanyaRanyaManyaKanariZyanyaVanyaKennyaKandeeKannon

Sibling names for Kanya

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

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