Kaniyah
#2,957 for girls in 2025, 56 births
- Peak · girls
- 2010 · 147 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,369since 1996
Kaniyah over time
Rank among girls' names. Kaniyah has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,957 | 56 |
| 2024 | #3,963 | 37 |
| 2023 | #3,047 | 54 |
| 2022 | #2,087 | 92 |
| 2021 | #2,345 | 77 |
| 2020 | #2,468 | 70 |
| 2019 | #2,249 | 81 |
| 2018 | #2,254 | 81 |
| 2017 | #2,384 | 76 |
| 2016 | #2,188 | 88 |
| 2015 | #2,236 | 84 |
| 2014 | #2,176 | 87 |
| 2013 | #2,152 | 87 |
| 2012 | #1,744 | 118 |
| 2011 | #1,708 | 122 |
| 2010 | #1,521 | 147 |
| 2009 | #1,676 | 133 |
| 2008 | #1,704 | 131 |
| 2007 | #1,666 | 133 |
| 2006 | #1,552 | 140 |
| 2005 | #1,639 | 122 |
| 2004 | #1,855 | 102 |
| 2003 | #2,203 | 78 |
| 2002 | #2,709 | 56 |
| 2001 | #2,963 | 48 |
| 2000 | #3,664 | 35 |
| 1999 | #8,223 | 11 |
| 1998 | #9,260 | 9 |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 |
| 1996 | #9,581 | 8 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kaniyah! It came in at #9,581, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1996–1998, when fewer than 10 girls a year got the name.
Where Kaniyah is popular in 2010
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Georgia#459 · 1 in 2,085
- Maryland#612 · 1 in 3,042
- Virginia#622 · 1 in 3,241
- Illinois#678 · 1 in 3,577
- North Carolina#1,070 · 1 in 6,421
Best ever in a state: #387 in Mississippi, 2003.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Georgia | #459 | 23 | 1 in 2,085 |
| Maryland | #612 | 8 | 1 in 3,042 |
| Virginia | #622 | 11 | 1 in 3,241 |
| Illinois | #678 | 17 | 1 in 3,577 |
| North Carolina | #1,070 | 7 | 1 in 6,421 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,085 | 7 | 1 in 7,559 |
| Michigan | #1,238 | 5 | 1 in 8,319 |
| Florida | #1,318 | 9 | 1 in 8,843 |
| New York | #1,753 | 7 | 1 in 13,292 |
| California | #2,600 | 8 | 1 in 26,376 |
| Texas | #2,762 | 6 | 1 in 26,604 |
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See more about Kaniyah
- 1,006 spots since 2024 (#3,963 → #2,957)
- 489 spots since 2020 (#2,468 → #2,957)
- 721 spots since 2015 (#2,236 → #2,957)
- Debuted 1996
- Peaked 2010 at #1,521 (147 births)
- Births halved by 2020, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,092 girls born in 2010 were named Kaniyah (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 28,701 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 41.3% of all girls named Kaniyah (978) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 34 | #8,223 (1999) | #9,784 |
| 2000s | 978 | #1,552 (2006) | #2,163 |
| 2010s | 971 | #1,521 (2010) | #2,061 |
| 2020s | 386 | #2,087 (2022) | #2,811 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Kaniyah in 2010
Top girls' names in 2010
More about 2010
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1,777,595 girls got a published name in 2010; 1 in 12,092 of them was named Kaniyah, which outranked 92.3% of the 19,841 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,513Rosalyn148
- #1,513Scout148
- #1,513Zoya148
- #1,521Kaniyah147
- #1,521Berenice147
- #1,521Elia147
- #1,521Estefania147
- #1,529Alianna146
- #1,529Anaiah146
- #1,529Darcy146
Tied with 7 names at #1,521; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.