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The first name 
Caniyah

Caniyah is a female first name.

Caniyah – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a girl named Caniyah in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Caniyah in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Caniyah by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Caniyah ranks at #8,560. That means there are 8,559 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Caniyah.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Caniyah

Caniyah -
at home in

If you ever wanted to meet a girl or a woman named Caniyah, you have limited options – because girls with this beautiful name are currently living in . However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if tehre are at least five people with that name living there – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Caniyah living in one state or another (if your name is Caniyah and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know, so we can refine our statistics even further). Which means – if you put this number in relation to the population of the USA – only one in 982,047 girls and women would turn around if you called out the name Caniyah. So, if your name is Caniyah it is very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Caniyah already makes you special.

Caniyah has 7 letters 
and begins with a C

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for girls' names. This is because 6.0% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.

With seven letters, the name Caniyah has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that with 6.0% of all girls' names that begin with a C, this first letter is much more common than the average of all letters. And which girls’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Carol.

Other names with 
C, a, n, i, y, a and h

If you take all the letters in the name Caniyah – C, a, n, i, y, a and h – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Chaniya or Chanyia.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Caniyah

If your name is Caniyah and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Caniyah

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Caniyah, you can simply say:

Cat

Apple

Nut

Igloo

Yoyo

Apple

Hat

This is how the name Caniyah is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Caniyah in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Caniyah

Caniyah

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Caniyah

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Caniyah is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

C
A
N
I
Y
A
H

Have you ever waved the name Caniyah

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

C
A
N
I
Y
A
H

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Caniyah sounds like this: