Canesha
Canesha was last recorded in 2003, when 5 babies were given it; 161 Americans have been recorded with it between 1977 and 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Canesha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Canesha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,209, in 2003; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
21 babies in 1990, the peak
Canesha peaked in 1990, when 21 girls were given it, #4,535 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 5 | #16,209 | 2.7 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,444 | 3.3 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,319 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,094 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,016 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,766 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,671 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,696 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,430 | 9.1 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,535 | 11.1 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 13 | #6,204 | 7.1 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,098 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,134 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,458 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,626 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,168 | 3.6 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,268 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,589 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 8 | #6,959 | 5.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Canesha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Canesha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 19 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Canesha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Canesha, and how old are they?
An estimated 157 Americans named Canesha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 33 and 40. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 163 people named Canesha (162 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 158 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Canesha?
Canesha is a less common spelling of Kanesha: SSA has recorded 161 Canesha and 1,752 Kanesha since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,993 babies since 1880, Canesha is the eighth most given (2.3% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Canesha
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Canesha and names like it
- Compare Canesha and KaneshaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sCanesha peaked in 1990.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Canesha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Canesha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.