Keniyah

#6,690 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Keniyah has been given to 777 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #6,690 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 59 recorded.

Babies named Keniyah, 2025

1 in 195,000

Keniyah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 94,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,690
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Keniyah 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 2025 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keniyah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Keniyahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Keniyah was born before 2010 — so the typical Keniyah is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
43.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
777
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Choose a decade

2010s — 43.6% of all recorded uses (339).

Is Keniyah 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
−162
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,451
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,309
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.68×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
28.8%
Peak was 2011 (59)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,929
2011

Spellings of Keniyah

Keniyah is not the most common spelling — Aniyah is, with 20.2% against Keniyah's 0.50%.

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 Keniyah is used

Across 1910–2025, Keniyah was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 575,815 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Maryland1 in —
  6. 6Missouri1 in —
  7. 7North Carolina1 in —
  8. 8Ohio1 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. Keniyah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Keniyah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,690
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,451
Best rank ever
#2,929
2011
Peak year
2011
59 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
777
Count in 2025
17

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Sibling names for Keniyah

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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