Kanaya
Kanaya was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,028 among girls’ names; 250 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kanaya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kanaya?
#14,028 among girls’ names, 2025
Kanaya fell from #11,358 in 2015 to #14,028 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 5.0 to 3.7 per million.
18 babies in 2005, the peak
Kanaya peaked in 2005, when 18 girls were given it, #6,664 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,028 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,680 | 5.0 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,910 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,591 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,087 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,242 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,324 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,237 | 3.4 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,358 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,540 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 8 | #12,726 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,848 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,306 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,726 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,267 | 6.8 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,669 | 8.4 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,664 | 9.7 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,428 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,773 | 7.7 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,137 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,957 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,502 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,469 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,910 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,843 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kanaya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kanaya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kanaya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kanaya, and how old are they?
An estimated 248 Americans named Kanaya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 9 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 234 people named Kanaya (217 women and girls, 17 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 218 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 9,231 babies since 1880, Kanaya is the eighth most given (2.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 120 babies (5.0%), the sixth most given that year.
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 Kanaya
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 Kanaya and names like it
- Compare Kanaya and KaniyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKanaya peaked in 2005.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kanaya since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Kanaya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kanaya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.