girls:
5 births since 2004
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
28 births since 2006
#4558 (1st percentile)
overall:
33 births since 2004
#7706 (0th percentile)
The name Kanyen is the #7,706 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 33 recorded births since 2004. This represents the 0.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,558 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 28 births since 2006. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2004.
Kanyen first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2004 (2004 for girls and 2006 for boys). Birth data for Kanyen is available in 5 out of the 13 years between 2004 and 2016 (4 years for boys and 1 years for girls). 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.
The name Kanyen has been given predominantly to boys, with 84.8% of all recorded births being male. In 2016, 100.0% of babies named Kanyen were boys. Interestingly, until around 2006, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 2004 to 2005), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (100.0% boys from 2006 to 2016).
For boys, Kanyen reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #871) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2006, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2016.
For girls, Kanyen reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #937) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kanyen".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Kanyen. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 30.6% confident that Kanyen is pronounced as KA-nyehn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KAH-nyehn, at 25.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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