Chaniya
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tʃɑnijə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Chaniya is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country.
- THThailand≈1 in 17Kas ชนัญญา(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 680K
- NLNetherlands1 in 250Kas Chanaya
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Chaniya itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 107 (measured from records)
- 1 in 680K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,000 named ชนัญญา, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
11 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Chanaya in US United States, NL Netherlands, BE Belgium and ชนัญญา in TH Thailand, ID Indonesia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
in Kenia und Tansania vorkommender weibl. Vom., der a u f Suaheli »reich« bedeutet.
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chaniya counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 17K | #142,235 | ชนัญญา | 107 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 364K | — | ชนัญญา | 7 |
| US United States | 489 | 1 in 680K | 489 | Chanaya | 62 |
| NL Netherlands | 69as Chanaya | 1 in 250K | 69 | Chanaya | 3 |
| DE Germany | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 5.2M | listed | — | — |
| BE Belgium | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Chanaya | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); the duden-vornamen-2007 register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 489 | #20,952 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 53 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 52 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 9 | #23,928 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 6 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 6 | #38,231 |
| DE Germany | DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen (2007) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Chaniya?
- A machine transcription gives /tʃɑnijə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Chaniya a male or female name?
- Chaniya is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Chaniya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.0 thousand people named ชนัญญา in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Chaniya most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Chaniya is densest in the United States — about 1 in 680 thousand people — even though Thailand holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Chaniya?
- In the United States, the national register counted 489 people named Chaniya in 2020, about 1 in 680 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Chaniya?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chaniyaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Chaniya”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.