Khaniya — girls' name
147 babies named Khaniya in U.S. Social Security records since 1999, with the highest year being 2008. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
The verdict
147 girls have been named Khaniya since 1999, peaking in the 2000s, last recorded in 2025.
- 147
- total births
- 1999–2025
- years on record
- 2000s
- peak decade
- 65%
- born in that decade
65% of everyone ever named Khaniya was born in this single decade.
17 babies were named Khaniya in 2008 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Khaniya
The Social Security Administration has registered 147 babies named Khaniya between 1999 and 2025, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Khaniya currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2025. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 17 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Khaniya performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 95 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Khaniya shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Khaniya in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Khaniya 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 147 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.
Khaniya at a glance
Last recorded 2025Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Khaniya popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2025–1999
- Peak year (2008)
- 17
- Annual births at peak — across 27 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2025.
147 total births across 27 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2008 with 17 births in a single year.
Khaniya by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 95 births that decade — 65% of Khaniya's all-time total
Khaniya decade highlights
- Peak decade 95 births
- Runner-up 41 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Khaniya's strongest decade
95 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 65% of all-time use.
Khaniya by state
Where Khaniya concentrates geographically — total births since 1999
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Georgia | | 10 | 6.8% |
10 of 147 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Georgia 6.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Georgia accounts for 6.8% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1999–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.