Kainalu — #4957 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Kainalu

The Social Security Administration has registered 652 babies named Kainalu between 1991 and 2024, spanning 34 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kainalu currently holds the #4957 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2003, when 32 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kainalu performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 258 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Kainalu shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Hawaii, which accounts for 458 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Utah. In total, SSA state-level files list Kainalu in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kainalu 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 652 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.