Kona
- #11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births
- #5,861 for boys in 2025, 15 births
- Given to boys 64.3% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2012 · 29 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 438since 1982
Kona over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
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| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #11,932 | 7 | #5,861 | 15 |
| 2024 | #11,122 | 8 | #6,199 | 14 |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 | #5,666 | 16 |
| 2022 | #6,707 | 17 | #6,147 | 14 |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 | #5,110 | 18 |
| 2020 | #7,212 | 15 | #4,698 | 20 |
| 2019 | #6,698 | 17 | #6,777 | 12 |
| 2018 | #7,100 | 16 | #6,036 | 14 |
| 2017 | #9,341 | 11 | #4,594 | 21 |
| 2016 | #12,876 | 7 | #4,943 | 19 |
| 2015 | #10,148 | 10 | #4,711 | 20 |
| 2014 | #11,931 | 8 | #5,997 | 14 |
| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 | #4,463 | 21 |
| 2012 | #10,429 | 10 | #3,625 | 29 |
| 2011 | #11,181 | 9 | #6,256 | 13 |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #5,251 | 17 |
| 2009 | #11,459 | 9 | #4,922 | 19 |
| 2008 | #15,405 | 6 | #5,249 | 17 |
| 2007 | #13,924 | 7 | #4,493 | 21 |
| 2006 | #12,420 | 8 | #6,094 | 13 |
| 2005 | — | #4,631 | 18 | |
| 2004 | — | #5,246 | 15 | |
| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 | #5,271 | 14 |
| 2002 | — | #6,088 | 11 | |
| 2001 | — | #6,445 | 10 | |
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| 1997 | — | #7,281 | 7 | |
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| 1993 | — | #8,700 | 5 | |
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| 1989 | — | #7,905 | 5 | |
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| 1982 | — | #5,619 | 6 | |
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| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 | — | |
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| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 | — | |
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 | — | |
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First appearance
1982
The first year at least five boys were named Kona! It came in at #5,619, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1983–1996, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Kona is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Kona in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 338 spots since 2024 (#6,199 → #5,861)
- 1,163 spots since 2020 (#4,698 → #5,861)
- 1,150 spots since 2015 (#4,711 → #5,861)
Rise & fade · boys
30 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1982
- Peaked 2012 at #3,625 (29 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 2 yrs later
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 65,412
- Highest: 1 in 65,412 boys born in 2012 were named Kona (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 113,872 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 41.1% of all boys named Kona (180) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2023
- Mostly girls until 2022, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 11 | #5,619 (1982) | #6,762 |
| 1990s | 12 | #7,281 (1997) | #7,991 |
| 2000s | 138 | #4,493 (2007) | #5,382 |
| 2010s | 180 | #3,625 (2012) | #5,265 |
| 2020s | 97 | #4,698 (2020) | #5,614 |
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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