Kainoa — #1702 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Kainoa

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,560 babies named Kainoa between 1975 and 2024, spanning 50 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kainoa currently holds the #1702 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 105 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kainoa performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 877 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Kainoa shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Hawaii, which accounts for 831 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Washington. In total, SSA state-level files list Kainoa in 11 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kainoa 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 2,560 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.