Kaniya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- kah-NY-ah
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #6,324 for girls
Kaniya is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 6,324th for girls in the US (18 babies).
Where does Kaniya come from?
Modern: modern coinage in the style of Taniya and Janiya
Is Kaniya a girl's or a boy's name?
Kaniya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 18 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kaniya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #6,324among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 18about 1 in 89,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 49% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 18 girls in the US were named Kaniya, making it the 6,324th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,004th. Its busiest year was 2005, with 207 girls. It first appears in the records in 1990.
Half of all the girls named Kaniya in the US since 1880 were born between 2004 and 2012, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 80 girls in the US were given Kaniya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,979, up from #6,324 for this spelling alone.
Kaniya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,324 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,639 |
| 2023 | 31 | #4,451 |
| 2022 | 33 | #4,293 |
| 2021 | 40 | #3,734 |
| 2020 | 35 | #4,004 |
| 2019 | 46 | #3,387 |
| 2018 | 48 | #3,292 |
| 2017 | 43 | #3,551 |
| 2016 | 42 | #3,656 |
| 2015 | 57 | #3,001 |
| 2014 | 81 | #2,290 |
| 2013 | 75 | #2,408 |
| 2012 | 78 | #2,373 |
| 2011 | 97 | #2,017 |
| 2010 | 115 | #1,783 |
| 2009 | 134 | #1,660 |
| 2008 | 143 | #1,589 |
| 2007 | 172 | #1,392 |
| 2006 | 195 | #1,234 |
| 2005 | 207 | #1,132 |
| 2004 | 186 | #1,200 |
| 2003 | 147 | #1,371 |
| 2002 | 115 | #1,605 |
| 2001 | 119 | #1,559 |
| 2000 | 72 | #2,186 |
| 1999 | 38 | #3,310 |
| 1998 | 34 | #3,494 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,505 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,526 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,252 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,580 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,581 |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,501 |
| 1990 | 5 | #12,952 |
Names like Kaniya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Anaya Avaya Avani Armani Priya Prisha Kavya Saanvi Araya Kaliyah Janiyah Anya
Other spellings of Kaniya
Names related to Kaniya
More Modern names
Jayden Ailany Myla Kayden Nevaeh Jax Indie Miley Raelynn Kaiden Kehlani Alayna Caden Zayden Wrenley Mya
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, “Kaniya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kaniya, updated 20 October 2026.