Kana
- #8,362 for girls in 2025, 12 births
- Last seen for boys in 2011 at #10,808
- Given to girls 98.0% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 1995 · 24 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 872since 1956
Kana over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Kana has never cracked the top 4,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,362 | 12 | — | |
| 2024 | #6,167 | 19 | — | |
| 2023 | #8,486 | 12 | — | |
| 2022 | #6,707 | 17 | — | |
| 2021 | #7,250 | 15 | — | |
| 2020 | #5,003 | 25 | — | |
| 2019 | #6,176 | 19 | — | |
| 2018 | #7,762 | 14 | — | |
| 2017 | #7,442 | 15 | — | |
| 2016 | #6,401 | 19 | — | |
| 2015 | #9,481 | 11 | — | |
| 2014 | #7,636 | 15 | — | |
| 2013 | #6,729 | 18 | — | |
| 2012 | #6,576 | 19 | — | |
| 2011 | #9,150 | 12 | #10,808 | 6 |
| 2010 | #7,880 | 15 | — | |
| 2009 | #5,226 | 27 | — | |
| 2008 | #6,559 | 20 | #11,037 | 6 |
| 2007 | #6,552 | 20 | — | |
| 2006 | #5,086 | 27 | — | |
| 2005 | #8,330 | 13 | #10,151 | 6 |
| 2004 | #5,744 | 21 | — | |
| 2003 | #6,055 | 19 | — | |
| 2002 | #5,254 | 22 | — | |
| 2001 | #4,688 | 25 | — | |
| 2000 | #5,312 | 21 | — | |
| 1999 | #4,445 | 25 | — | |
| 1998 | #6,073 | 16 | — | |
| 1997 | #4,660 | 22 | — | |
| 1996 | #4,739 | 21 | — | |
| 1995 | #4,217 | 24 | — | |
| 1994 | #5,713 | 16 | — | |
| 1993 | #5,419 | 17 | — | |
| 1992 | #4,528 | 22 | — | |
| 1991 | #6,253 | 14 | — | |
| 1990 | #6,131 | 14 | — | |
| 1989 | #8,037 | 9 | — | |
| 1988 | #5,895 | 13 | — | |
| 1987 | #4,660 | 17 | — | |
| 1986 | #6,156 | 11 | — | |
| 1985 | #5,077 | 14 | — | |
| 1984 | #5,539 | 12 | — | |
| 1983 | #7,312 | 8 | — | |
| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 | — | |
| 1981 | #4,963 | 14 | — | |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 | — | |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | — | |
| 1978 | #5,563 | 11 | — | |
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 | — | |
| 1976 | #6,611 | 8 | — | |
| 1975 | #5,984 | 9 | — | |
| 1974 | #5,776 | 9 | — | |
| 1973 | #5,191 | 10 | — | |
| 1972 | #5,959 | 8 | — | |
| 1971 | #7,388 | 6 | — | |
| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 | — | |
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| 1968 | #5,642 | 7 | — | |
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| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 | — | |
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| 1956 | #5,325 | 6 | — | |
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First appearance
1956
The first year at least five girls were named Kana! It came in at #5,325, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1957–1967, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Kana is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Kana in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Kana
Momentum · girls
Falling
- 2,195 spots since 2024 (#6,167 → #8,362)
- 3,359 spots since 2020 (#5,003 → #8,362)
- 1,119 spots since 2015 (#9,481 → #8,362)
Rise & fade · girls
39 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1956
- Peaked 1995 at #4,217 (24 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 16 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 64,662
- Highest: 1 in 64,662 girls born in 2020 were named Kana (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 133,939 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #4,217 in 1995, was only 1 in 73,273 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2000s
- 24.7% of all girls named Kana (215) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 6 | #5,325 (1956) | #5,325 |
| 1960s | 12 | #5,642 (1968) | #6,205 |
| 1970s | 79 | #5,191 (1973) | #6,732 |
| 1980s | 112 | #4,660 (1987) | #6,420 |
| 1990s | 191 | #4,217 (1995) | #5,218 |
| 2000s | 215 | #4,688 (2001) | #5,881 |
| 2010s | 157 | #6,176 (2019) | #7,523 |
| 2020s | 100 | #5,003 (2020) | #6,996 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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