Kaniya
Kaniya was given to 18 girls in 2025, #6,433 among girls’ names; 2,498 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,470 Americans named Kaniya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 14 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaniya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kaniya?
#6,433 among girls’ names, 2025
Kaniya fell from #3,013 in 2015 to #6,433 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 31.9 to 11.2 per million.
207 babies in 2005, the peak
Kaniya peaked in 2005, when 207 girls were given it, #1,133 among girls’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,433 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,791 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 31 | #4,506 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 33 | #4,332 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 40 | #3,769 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 35 | #4,050 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 46 | #3,420 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 48 | #3,315 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 43 | #3,592 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 42 | #3,677 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 57 | #3,013 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 81 | #2,298 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 75 | #2,422 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 78 | #2,388 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 97 | #2,024 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 115 | #1,789 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 134 | #1,667 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 143 | #1,592 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 172 | #1,392 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 195 | #1,236 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 207 | #1,133 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 186 | #1,204 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 147 | #1,373 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 115 | #1,613 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 119 | #1,565 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 72 | #2,194 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 38 | #3,343 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 34 | #3,523 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,578 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,642 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,414 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,989 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,130 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,202 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,990 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaniya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kaniya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kaniya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaniya, and how old are they?
2,470 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,498 Americans ever recorded as Kaniya. The median Kaniya alive today is 19 years old; half are between 14 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 1,754 people named Kaniya (1,754 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,314 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 56 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,860 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 562 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Kaniya born?
The states with the most babies named Kaniya are Georgia, Florida and North Carolina, with 34% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 235 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| Florida | 143 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 135 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Illinois | 130 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Virginia | 90 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Maryland | 88 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Michigan | 82 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Mississippi | 82 | not ranked | 3.2× |
| Tennessee | 82 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Texas | 82 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Kaniya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kaniya is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1990 it was given 2.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kaniya with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 8,057 babies since 1880, Kaniya is the most given (31% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 101 babies (18%), the second 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 Kaniya
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 Kaniya and names like it
- Compare Kaniya and KaniyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKaniya peaked in 2005.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaniya since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Kaniya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kaniya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.