Kaneshia — girls' name

What the Data Says About Kaneshia

The Social Security Administration has registered 452 babies named Kaneshia between 1973 and 1999, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kaneshia currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1999. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 80 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kaneshia performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 260 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Kaneshia shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 33 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Mississippi and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Kaneshia in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kaneshia 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 452 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.