Kaimana
Kaimana is given to both girls and boys: 12 girls and 31 boys were given it in 2025 (#8,599 among girls’ names and #3,612 among boys’, #6,243 among all names counting both); 1,176 Americans have been recorded with it since 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,160 Americans named Kaimana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaimana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kaimana mean?
Wiktionary, Hawaiian section
Kaimana is “a male or (less commonly) female given name from Hawaiian” Its etymology gives the senses “diamond” (kaimana) and “sea” (kai) and “power” (mana).
From kaimana (“diamond”); can also be construed as kai (“sea”) + mana (“power”) = “powerful sea, sea filled with mana”.
/kai̯ˈma.na/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Hawaiian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kaimana?
#3,612 among boys’ names, 2025
Kaimana fell from #3,328 in 2015 to #3,612 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 17.7 to 18.1 per million.
64 babies in 2022, the peak
Kaimana peaked in 2022, when 64 babies were given it (44 boys, #2,890 among boys’ names). The 43 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 67% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,599 | 31 | #3,612 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,293 | 36 | #3,301 |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,054 | 43 | #2,918 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,089 | 44 | #2,890 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,811 | 41 | #3,000 |
| 2020 | under 5 | 34 | #3,301 | |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,091 | 39 | #3,075 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,969 | 37 | #3,132 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,609 | 30 | #3,623 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,288 | 40 | #2,955 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 34 | #3,328 | |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,543 | 25 | #4,065 |
| 2013 | under 5 | 34 | #3,230 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 28 | #3,749 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 28 | #3,732 | |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,345 | 35 | #3,209 |
| 2009 | under 5 | 39 | #3,018 | |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,161 | 33 | #3,386 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,111 | 42 | #2,842 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,519 | 25 | #3,941 |
| 2005 | under 5 | 29 | #3,418 | |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,364 | 29 | #3,326 |
| 2003 | under 5 | 26 | #3,484 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 18 | #4,399 | |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,367 | 25 | #3,453 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,203 | 21 | #3,844 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,452 | 22 | #3,524 |
| 1998 | under 5 | 14 | #4,762 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 9 | #6,357 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 14 | #4,496 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 12 | #4,953 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 15 | #4,187 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 18 | #3,567 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 12 | #4,701 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 11 | #4,928 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 9 | #5,587 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 8 | #5,453 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 9 | #4,746 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 6 | #6,314 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 5 | #6,821 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Kaimana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,176 Americans recorded as Kaimana, 14% are girls and 86% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kaimana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaimana, and how old are they?
1,160 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,176 Americans ever recorded as Kaimana. The median Kaimana alive today is 13 years old; half are between 6 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 803 people named Kaimana (143 women and girls, 660 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 873 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 114 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 465 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 581 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Kaimana born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 10 | #99 | 125.9× |
Where Kaimana is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kaimana is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1984 it was given 125.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kaimana with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,620 babies since 1880, Kaimana is the most given (73% of them). In 2025 it was given to 43 of their 156 babies (28%), the second most given that year.
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 Kaimana
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 Kaimana and names like it
- Compare Kaimana and KaimaniBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKaimana peaked in 2022.
- Hawaii’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaimana since 1910.
- Hawaiian namesWiktionary’s origin for Kaimana: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Kaimana.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kaimana alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.