girls:
2.3k births since 1996
#3621 (37th percentile)
overall:
2.3k births since 1996
#5529 (29th percentile)
The name Kaniyah is the #5,529 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,273 recorded births since 1996. This represents the 28.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 28.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,621 (36.6% percentile) for all time with 2,273 births since 1996.
Kaniyah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1996 (first recorded for girls in 1996).
For girls, Kaniyah reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 15.1% percentile (ranked #802) with 75 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 75 births per million (ranked 15.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2010, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Kaniyah ranks #898 for girls (5.2% percentile) with 31 births per million, which is 41.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kaniyah".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Kaniyah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 44.1% confident that Kaniyah is pronounced as kuh-NEE-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kah-NEE-yuh, at 29.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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