Kaniyah — #4080 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Kaniyah

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,311 babies named Kaniyah between 1996 and 2024, spanning 29 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kaniyah currently holds the #4080 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2010, when 147 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kaniyah performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 978 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Kaniyah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 194 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Kaniyah in 23 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kaniyah 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 2,311 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.