Kanessa — girls' name

What the Data Says About Kanessa

The Social Security Administration has registered 48 babies named Kanessa between 1979 and 2008, spanning 30 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kanessa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2008. The name reached its historical peak in 1980, when 7 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kanessa performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 20 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Kanessa shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kanessa 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 48 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.