Kaena — unisex name

What the Data Says About Kaena

The Social Security Administration has registered 71 babies named Kaena between 2004 and 2016, spanning 13 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kaena currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2016. The name reached its historical peak in 2004, when 12 babies received it in a single year. Kaena is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 23 additional births since 2008.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kaena performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 53 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Kaena shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Hawaii, which accounts for 12 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Kaena in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kaena in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 71 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.