Kanaya

Gender: Girl
Say it: kuh-NY-uh
US rank, 2025: #13,203 for girls

Kanaya is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).

Is Kanaya a girl's or a boy's name?

Kanaya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Kanaya in the US?

Rank in 2025: #13,203among girls
Babies in 2025: 6about 1 in 270,000 girls
Five-year trend: Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class: under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Kanaya, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. Its busiest year was 2005, with 18 girls. It first appears in the records in 1997.

Half of all the girls named Kanaya in the US since 1880 were born between 2003 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.

1997Busiest: 18 in 20052025

Kanaya in the US, year by year

Year	Girls	Rank
2025	6	#13,203
2024	0	–
2023	8	#11,164
2022	0	–
2021	10	#9,557
2020	8	#11,085
2019	7	#12,442
2018	16	#7,096
2017	10	#9,939
2016	6	#14,326
2015	9	#10,861
2014	0	–
2013	6	#14,577
2012	0	–
2011	8	#12,146
2010	8	#12,270
2009	11	#9,971
2008	14	#8,525
2007	13	#9,003
2006	16	#7,480
2005	18	#6,523
2004	7	#12,754
2003	14	#7,575
2002	11	#8,831
2001	13	#7,717
2000	10	#9,156
1999	6	#12,681
1998	10	#8,579
1997	5	#13,719

Names like Kanaya

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Anaya Avaya Prisha Avani Saanvi Kavya Amaya Armani Araya Anvika Arya Inaya

Names related to Kanaya

Kayan Kanai Kaniya Kayanna Kayana Kanani Kana Kanna

Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Kanaya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kanaya, updated 20 October 2026.