Kaniyah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- kah-NY-ah
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #2,957 for girls
Kaniyah is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 2,957th for girls in the US (56 babies).
Where does Kaniyah come from?
Modern: spelling of Kaniya; modern coinage in the style of Taniya and Janiya
Meaning borrowed from Kaniya.
Is Kaniyah a girl's or a boy's name?
Kaniyah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 56 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kaniyah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,957th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 56 about 1 in 29,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 37% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 56 girls in the US were named Kaniyah, making it the 2,957th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,468th. Its busiest year was 2010, with 147 girls. It first appears in the records in 1996.
Half of all the girls named Kaniyah in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 80 girls in the US were given Kaniyah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,979, up from #2,957 for this spelling alone.
Kaniyah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56 | #2,957 |
| 2024 | 37 | #3,962 |
| 2023 | 54 | #3,047 |
| 2022 | 92 | #2,087 |
| 2021 | 77 | #2,345 |
| 2020 | 70 | #2,468 |
| 2019 | 81 | #2,249 |
| 2018 | 81 | #2,254 |
| 2017 | 76 | #2,384 |
| 2016 | 88 | #2,188 |
| 2015 | 84 | #2,236 |
| 2014 | 87 | #2,176 |
| 2013 | 87 | #2,152 |
| 2012 | 118 | #1,744 |
| 2011 | 122 | #1,708 |
| 2010 | 147 | #1,521 |
| 2009 | 133 | #1,676 |
| 2008 | 131 | #1,704 |
| 2007 | 133 | #1,666 |
| 2006 | 140 | #1,552 |
| 2005 | 122 | #1,638 |
| 2004 | 102 | #1,854 |
| 2003 | 78 | #2,200 |
| 2002 | 56 | #2,706 |
| 2001 | 48 | #2,959 |
| 2000 | 35 | #3,659 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,216 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,254 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,065 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,576 |
Names like Kaniyah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kaliyah, Zaniyah, Kamiyah, Jaliyah, Aaliyah, Janiyah, Zaliyah, Aziyah, Sariyah, Hadassah, Jaziyah, Taliyah
Other spellings of Kaniyah
Names related to Kaniyah
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, “Kaniyah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kaniyah, updated 20 October 2026.