Given name & surname
Kanya
“a young girl; a virgin”
Kanya is used as a given name and a surname. One interpretation is “a young girl; a virgin.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One interpretation is “a young girl; a virgin.”
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1972. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kanya through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 618
- 25 boys · 593 girls
- Most popular year
- 2007
- 46 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −59%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 46 in 2007. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 747 as a first name in 2020; 187 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Kanya’s family of names
Kanya may belong to the same name family as KANNYA. This is a tentative spelling connection.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Kanya
- Kanya FujimotoJapanese association football playerborn 1999
- Kanya KingBritish businesswoman (1969–2026)1964–2026
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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