Caniya
Caniya was last recorded in 2020, when 5 babies were given it; 272 Americans have been recorded with it between 2000 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Caniya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Caniya?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,572, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
28 babies in 2006, the peak
Caniya peaked in 2006, when 28 girls were given it, #4,982 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 5 | #15,572 | 3.1 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,125 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,243 | 5.6 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,553 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,336 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,044 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,895 | 8.5 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,177 | 9.7 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,699 | 10.7 |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,121 | 15.2 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 25 | #5,598 | 13.2 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,172 | 7.8 |
| 2006 | 28 | #4,982 | 14.7 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,313 | 10.3 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,536 | 9.8 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,659 | 7.7 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,384 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,866 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 8 | #10,895 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Caniya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Caniya 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 Caniya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Caniya, and how old are they?
An estimated 270 Americans named Caniya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 15 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 230 people named Caniya (229 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 266 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 Caniya?
Caniya is a less common spelling of Kaniya: SSA has recorded 272 Caniya and 2,498 Kaniya since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,584 babies since 1880, Caniya is the seventh most given (3.6% of them). In 2025 none of their 101 babies recorded by SSA was a Caniya (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Caniya
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 Caniya and names like it
- Compare Caniya and KaniyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sCaniya peaked in 2006.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Caniya since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Caniya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Caniya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.