Kaneesha — girls' name

What the Data Says About Kaneesha

The Social Security Administration has registered 482 babies named Kaneesha between 1977 and 2001, spanning 25 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kaneesha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2001. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 175 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kaneesha performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 374 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Kaneesha shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 32 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Kaneesha in 15 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kaneesha in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 482 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.