girls:
2.6k births since 1971
#3391 (41st percentile)
overall:
2.6k births since 1971
#5256 (32nd percentile)
The name Kanisha is the #5,256 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,598 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 32.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 32.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,391 (40.7% percentile) for all time with 2,598 births since 1971.
Kanisha first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (first recorded for girls in 1971). Birth data for Kanisha is available in 46 out of the 53 years between 1971 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Kanisha reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 32.2% percentile (ranked #585) with 143 births per million. The name was most common in 1990, with 143 births per million (ranked 32.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2000, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Kanisha ranks #944 for girls (0.3% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 3.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kanisha".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Kanisha. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 68.6% confident that Kanisha is pronounced as kuh-NEE-shuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kuh-NIH-shuh, at 31.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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