Meaning not yet researched.
Kaniyah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 56 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,524 in 2010.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,524 in 2010; #2,975 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kaniyah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,975 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2010, at #1,524.
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Kaniyah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 56 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,524 in 2010 · most girls in one year: 147 (2010).
In 2025, 56 US girls were named Kaniyah, making it the 2,975th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,027 places from #4,002 in 2024. That is 19 more than the 37 girls named Kaniyah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,524, reached in 2010. That year also had the most girls given the name: 147. For comparison, it was #2,249 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kaniyah in 30 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1996 with 8 babies. In all, 2,369 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 978 babies named Kaniyah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 712 US girls were named Kaniyah; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 92. In 2025 that was about 1 in 28,701 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kaniyah ranked highest in Georgia in 2025, at #1,285 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kaniya (2,498 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kanyiah and Caniah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kanyiah (52), Caniah (12).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Kaniyah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 7 | #1,285 | — |
| Texas | 7 | #2,774 | #3,536 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56 | #2,975 | — | — |
| 2024 | 37 | #4,002 | — | — |
| 2023 | 54 | #3,062 | — | — |
| 2022 | 92 | #2,096 | — | — |
| 2021 | 77 | #2,357 | — | — |
| 2020 | 70 | #2,481 | — | — |
| 2019 | 81 | #2,260 | — | — |
| 2018 | 81 | #2,261 | — | — |
| 2017 | 76 | #2,392 | — | — |
| 2016 | 88 | #2,198 | — | — |
| 2015 | 84 | #2,249 | — | — |
| 2014 | 87 | #2,186 | — | — |
| 2013 | 87 | #2,162 | — | — |
| 2012 | 118 | #1,753 | — | — |
| 2011 | 122 | #1,711 | — | — |
| 2010 | 147 | #1,524 | — | — |
| 2009 | 133 | #1,680 | — | — |
| 2008 | 131 | #1,708 | — | — |
| 2007 | 133 | #1,670 | — | — |
| 2006 | 140 | #1,555 | — | — |
| 2005 | 122 | #1,642 | — | — |
| 2004 | 102 | #1,864 | — | — |
| 2003 | 78 | #2,215 | — | — |
| 2002 | 56 | #2,726 | — | — |
| 2001 | 48 | #2,988 | — | — |
| 2000 | 35 | #3,697 | — | — |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,500 | — | — |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,677 | — | — |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,861 | — | — |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,015 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).