Kania
Kania was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 613 Americans have been recorded with it between 1981 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kania by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kania?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,325, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
49 babies in 2000, the peak
Kania peaked in 2000, when 49 girls were given it, #2,916 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #14,325 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,467 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,785 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,867 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,691 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,132 | 5.2 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,385 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,475 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,798 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,421 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 9 | #11,659 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,504 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,459 | 14.2 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,851 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 26 | #5,453 | 13.5 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,516 | 16.8 |
| 2005 | 41 | #3,613 | 22.2 |
| 2004 | 41 | #3,592 | 22.3 |
| 2003 | 34 | #3,980 | 18.6 |
| 2002 | 33 | #3,923 | 18.4 |
| 2001 | 45 | #3,112 | 25.0 |
| 2000 | 49 | #2,916 | 27.0 |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,376 | 14.7 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,463 | 10.8 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,307 | 10.9 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,536 | 8.0 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,102 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,857 | 7.3 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,013 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,291 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,044 | 3.2 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,377 | 5.6 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,744 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,736 | 4.1 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,141 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,506 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kania a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kania has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kania: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kania, and how old are they?
An estimated 605 Americans named Kania and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 18 and 27. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 574 people named Kania (565 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 591 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below 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).
How common is the spelling Kania?
Kania is a less common spelling of Kaniya: SSA has recorded 613 Kania and 2,498 Kaniya since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 8,445 babies since 1880, Kania is the sixth most given (7.3% of them). In 2025 none of their 122 babies recorded by SSA was a Kania (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 Kania
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 Kania and names like it
- Compare Kania and KaniyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKania peaked in 2000.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kania since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Kania.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kania alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.