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Kanijah

Girl · ka-NY-ja · Modern

Kanijah is a girls' name of Modern origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

Where does Kanijah come from?

Modern: modern coinage with the popular -ijah ending

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ka-NY-ja

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

Kanijah is a girls' name.

How popular is Kanijah in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2007, with 24 girls. It first appears in the records in 1996.

Half of all the girls named Kanijah in the US since 1880 were born between 2003 and 2010, the years shaded on the chart below.

1996Busiest: 24 in 20072024
Kanijah in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20248#11,117
20230–
20220–
20210–
20200–
20199#10,467
20180–
20170–
20165#16,210
20156#14,477
20140–
20130–
201210#10,424
201116#7,432
201021#6,180
200918#7,063
200816#7,738
200724#5,706
200621#6,123
200518#6,523
200421#5,740
200317#6,571
200215#7,039
200110#9,344
200013#7,574
199911#8,216
19987#11,132
19970–
19965#13,511

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