Kanani — #6210 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Kanani

The Social Security Administration has registered 882 babies named Kanani between 1964 and 2024, spanning 61 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kanani currently holds the #6210 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2000, when 31 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kanani performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 205 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Kanani shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Hawaii, which accounts for 231 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California. In total, SSA state-level files list Kanani in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kanani 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 882 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.