Kanna
Kanna was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,768 among girls’ names; 275 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kanna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kanna?
#9,768 among girls’ names, 2025
Kanna rose from #12,387 in 2015 to #9,768 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 4.5 to 6.2 per million.
16 babies in 2019, the peak
Kanna peaked in 2019, when 16 girls were given it, #7,178 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 63% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,768 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,180 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,262 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,422 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,241 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,385 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,178 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,939 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,534 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,735 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #12,387 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,265 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,878 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,819 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,750 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,960 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,064 | 5.4 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,561 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,459 | 5.7 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,343 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,148 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,468 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,705 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,430 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,724 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,857 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,572 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,465 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,089 | 3.9 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,174 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kanna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kanna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kanna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kanna, and how old are they?
An estimated 273 Americans named Kanna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 379 people named Kanna (350 women and girls, 29 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 209 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 8,090 babies since 1880, Kanna is the eighth most given (3.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 115 babies (8.7%), the seventh most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kanna
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Kanna and names like it
- Compare Kanna and KaniyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKanna peaked in 2019.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kanna since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Kanna.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kanna alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.