Kanya — girls' name

What the Data Says About Kanya

The Social Security Administration has registered 593 babies named Kanya between 1972 and 2023, spanning 52 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kanya currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2007, when 46 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kanya performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 286 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Kanya shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Florida, which accounts for 8 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Kanya in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kanya 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 593 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.