Kanai
- #7,885 for girls in 2025, 13 births
- #3,181 for boys in 2025, 37 births
- Given to boys 70.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 37 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 406since 1999
Kanai over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | #7,885 | 13 | #3,181 | 37 |
| 2024 | #11,122 | 8 | #4,072 | 26 |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 | #3,712 | 30 |
| 2022 | #7,631 | 14 | #3,774 | 29 |
| 2021 | #6,691 | 17 | #4,247 | 24 |
| 2020 | #10,250 | 9 | #5,699 | 15 |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | #4,806 | 20 |
| 2018 | — | #5,320 | 17 | |
| 2017 | #9,341 | 11 | #5,788 | 15 |
| 2016 | #11,781 | 8 | #6,349 | 13 |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | #5,058 | 18 |
| 2014 | #13,069 | 7 | #5,066 | 18 |
| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 | #5,923 | 14 |
| 2012 | #12,199 | 8 | #4,251 | 23 |
| 2011 | #13,347 | 7 | #6,256 | 13 |
| 2010 | #11,246 | 9 | #10,766 | 6 |
| 2009 | #10,679 | 10 | #6,436 | 13 |
| 2008 | #11,599 | 9 | #6,070 | 14 |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | #7,590 | 10 |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 | #6,460 | 12 |
| 2005 | — | #6,634 | 11 | |
| 2004 | — | #7,536 | 9 | |
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| 2001 | — | #6,935 | 9 | |
| 2000 | — | #10,349 | 5 | |
| 1999 | — | #9,912 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kanai! It came in at #9,912, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2002–2003, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Kanai is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Hawaii#146 · 1 in 417
Best ever in a state: #132 in Hawaii, 2012.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Hawaii | #146 | 7 | 1 in 417 |
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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.
See more about Kanai
- 891 spots since 2024 (#4,072 → #3,181)
- 2,518 spots since 2020 (#5,699 → #3,181)
- 1,877 spots since 2015 (#5,058 → #3,181)
- Debuted 1999
- Peaked 2025 at #3,181 (37 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 46,164 boys born in 2025 were named Kanai (0.00%)
- 39.7% of all boys named Kanai (161) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2010, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1990s | 5 | #9,912 (1999) | #9,912 |
| 2000s | 83 | #6,070 (2008) | #7,251 |
| 2010s | 157 | #4,251 (2012) | #5,958 |
| 2020s | 161 | #3,181 (2025) | #4,114 |
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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