Kaniel
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 13 babies a year in the US.
Kaniel by the numbers
Kaniel was given to 13 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 13 babies in 2009, making it a 2000s name.
What we can tell you about Kaniel
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
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Other names in the records within a letter or two of Kaniel. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
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