Kailana
Kailana was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,757 among girls’ names; 369 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kailana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kailana?
#9,757 among girls’ names, 2025
Kailana fell from #6,845 in 2015 to #9,757 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 10.1 to 6.2 per million.
27 babies in 2009, the peak
Kailana peaked in 2009, when 27 girls were given it, #5,293 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 37% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,757 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,406 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,712 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,811 | 8.5 |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,094 | 9.8 |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,389 | 14.2 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,551 | 10.7 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,560 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,308 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,127 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #6,845 | 10.1 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,258 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,869 | 10.3 |
| 2012 | 22 | #5,999 | 12.5 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,829 | 13.1 |
| 2010 | 18 | #7,052 | 10.1 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,293 | 14.7 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,179 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,294 | 7.8 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,664 | 8.4 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,571 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,415 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,833 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,444 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,200 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,450 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kailana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kailana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kailana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kailana, and how old are they?
An estimated 366 Americans named Kailana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 279 people named Kailana (274 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 286 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 48,639 babies since 1880, Kailana is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 4,723 babies (<1%), again the eighth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kailana
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Kailana and names like it
- Compare Kailana and KailaniBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKailana peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kailana since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Kailana.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kailana alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.