Kainani — girls' name
32 babies named Kainani in U.S. Social Security records since 1997, with the highest year being 1999. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
38% of everyone ever named Kainani was born in this single decade.
7 babies were named Kainani in 1999 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Kainani
The Social Security Administration has registered 32 babies named Kainani between 1997 and 2019, spanning 23 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kainani currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1999, when 7 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Kainani performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 12 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Kainani shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Hawaii, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Kainani in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Kainani 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 32 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.
Kainani at a glance
Last recorded 2019Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Kainani popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–1997
- Peak year (1999)
- 7
- Annual births at peak — across 23 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2019.
32 total births across 23 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1999 with 7 births in a single year.
Kainani by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 12 births that decade — 38% of Kainani's all-time total
Kainani decade highlights
- Peak decade 12 births
- Runner-up 10 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Kainani's strongest decade
12 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 38% of all-time use.
Kainani by state
Where Kainani concentrates geographically — total births since 1997
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Hawaii | | 5 | 15.6% |
5 of 32 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Hawaii 15.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Hawaii accounts for 15.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1997–2019 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.