Kanai — #4157 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Kanai

The Social Security Administration has registered 369 babies named Kanai between 1999 and 2024, spanning 26 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kanai currently holds the #4157 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 30 babies received it in a single year. Kanai is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 156 additional births since 2006.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kanai performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 157 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Kanai shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Hawaii, which accounts for 64 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Kanai in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kanai 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 369 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.