Kana

Where Kana comes from

Borrowed from Japanese 香菜 (Kana).
— Wiktionary's entry for Kana
  • Japanese
  • Vowel-ended
Kana through the years
  1. 1956
    First appearance
    #5,325 among girls with 6 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1995
    Peak, #4,217
    24 babies named Kana, its best rank.
  3. 2011
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #9,150.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Japanese.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.