Girls' name · since 2003
Kniyah
Kniyah has 99 recorded births since 2003 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2010 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #27,222 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 99
- born since 2003
- 2010s
- peak decade
Kniyah sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 99 recorded since 2003.
Kniyah has 99 recorded births among girls since 2003, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2003 to 2022.
- #27,222 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 99 born since 2003
- 2010s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Kniyah ranks #27,222 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 99 born since 2003, peaking in the 2010s.
- #27,222 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 99
- born since 2003
- 2010s
- peak decade
Kniyah's 99 recorded births place it above 62.28% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Kniyah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Kniyah splits its recorded history at 2012: 40% of all births land in the more recent half, 60% in the earlier half, leaning more toward its earlier era than today's. The single quietest year was 2014 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2010 peak of 15 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Kniyah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2003–2022
- Peak year (2010)
- 15
- Annual births at peak, across 20 years of records
Kniyah by decade
2010s is the heaviest window (55 births, 56% of the file).
2010s was Kniyah's strongest decade.
55 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 56% of all-time use.
Kniyah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s
2000s
34 births
- 2010s
2010s
55 births
- 2020s 10
2020s
10 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 55 births (56% of all-time use).
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- Kniyah's decade-level peak was the 2010s (55 total births); usage has since declined to 10 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Kniyah: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2010)
Similar record span (~19 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2003–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Kniyah draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.