Kainoa
- Last seen for girls in 2024 at #15,293
- #1,708 for boys in 2025, 95 births
- Given to boys 98.5% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2005 · 90 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,656since 1975
Kainoa over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Kainoa has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Hover or use arrow keys to read values by year; click or press Enter to open that year.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,708 | 95 | |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 | #1,685 | 99 |
| 2023 | — | #1,681 | 101 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,022 | 75 | |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 | #1,870 | 82 |
| 2020 | — | #1,849 | 80 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,698 | 93 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,777 | 86 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,707 | 92 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,563 | 105 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,691 | 92 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,714 | 88 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,733 | 84 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,775 | 84 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,835 | 77 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,881 | 76 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,925 | 74 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,775 | 84 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,875 | 76 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,738 | 80 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,554 | 90 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,629 | 79 | |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #1,561 | 81 |
| 2002 | — | #1,723 | 67 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,960 | 55 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,768 | 62 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,932 | 50 | |
| 1998 | — | #2,199 | 41 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,823 | 27 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,908 | 47 | |
| 1995 | — | #2,299 | 34 | |
| 1994 | — | #2,041 | 40 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,509 | 29 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,412 | 30 | |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | #2,052 | 36 |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | #4,167 | 13 |
| 1989 | — | #3,618 | 15 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,860 | 19 | |
| 1987 | — | #3,339 | 14 | |
| 1986 | — | #3,440 | 13 | |
| 1985 | — | #5,785 | 6 | |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | #2,956 | 15 |
| 1983 | — | #3,230 | 13 | |
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| 1981 | — | #3,412 | 12 | |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 | #3,615 | 11 |
| 1979 | — | #4,068 | 9 | |
| 1978 | — | #3,857 | 9 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,606 | 10 | |
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| 1975 | — | #4,797 | 6 | |
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First appearance
1975
The first year at least five boys were named Kainoa! It came in at #4,797, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1976, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Kainoa is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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Top states · boys
- Hawaii#56 · 1 in 208
- Nevada#389 · 1 in 1,613
- Oregon#529 · 1 in 2,510
- Washington#529 · 1 in 2,523
- California#1,011 · 1 in 8,356
Best ever in a state: #36 in Hawaii, 2005.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Hawaii | #56 | 14 | 1 in 208 |
| Nevada | #389 | 7 | 1 in 1,613 |
| Oregon | #529 | 6 | 1 in 2,510 |
| Washington | #529 | 13 | 1 in 2,523 |
| California | #1,011 | 21 | 1 in 8,356 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 23 spots since 2024 (#1,685 → #1,708)
- 141 spots since 2020 (#1,849 → #1,708)
- 17 spots since 2015 (#1,691 → #1,708)
Rise & fade · boys
30 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 2005 at #1,554 (90 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 16,936
- Highest: 1 in 16,936 boys born in 2023 were named Kainoa (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 17,980 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,554 in 2005, was only 1 in 22,192 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 33.0% of all boys named Kainoa (877) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1970s | 34 | #3,606 (1977) | #4,082 |
| 1980s | 118 | #2,860 (1988) | #3,584 |
| 1990s | 347 | #1,908 (1996) | #2,434 |
| 2000s | 748 | #1,554 (2005) | #1,751 |
| 2010s | 877 | #1,563 (2016) | #1,737 |
| 2020s | 532 | #1,681 (2023) | #1,803 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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