How popular is “Kaniyah” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Kaniyah” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

This chart shows how the popularity of “Kaniyah” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Kaniyah” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

This chart shows how “Kaniyah” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Bias toward female
1996	8	0.000002193	8	100%
1997	6	0.000001655	6	100%
1998	9	0.000002447	9	100%
1999	11	0.000002978	11	100%
2000	35	0.000009259	35	100%
2001	48	0.000012823	48	100%
2002	56	0.00001498	56	100%
2003	78	0.000020514	78	100%
2004	102	0.000026695	102	100%
2005	122	0.000031731	122	100%
2006	140	0.000035388	140	100%
2007	133	0.000033269	133	100%
2008	131	0.000033328	131	100%
2009	133	0.000034815	133	100%
2010	147	0.000039776	147	100%
2011	122	0.000033353	122	100%
2012	118	0.000032264	118	100%
2013	87	0.000023864	87	100%
2014	87	0.000023473	87	100%
2015	84	0.000022697	84	100%
2016	88	0.000023987	88	100%
2017	76	0.000021252	76	100%
2018	81	0.000023038	81	100%
2019	81	0.000023337	81	100%
2020	70	0.000020954	70	100%
2021	76	0.000022432	76	100%
2022	92	0.000027194	92	100%
2023	54	0.000016308	54	100%
2024	36	0.000010816	36	100%

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