Kano
Kano was given to 13 boys in 2025, #6,634 among boys’ names; 235 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kano by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kano?
#6,634 among boys’ names, 2025
Kano fell from #6,140 in 2015 to #6,634 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 7.3 to 7.6 per million.
26 babies in 2022, the peak
Kano peaked in 2022, when 26 boys were given it, #4,138 among boys’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #6,634 | 7.6 |
| 2024 | 11 | #7,504 | 6.4 |
| 2023 | 21 | #4,804 | 12.3 |
| 2022 | 26 | #4,138 | 14.9 |
| 2021 | 21 | #4,699 | 12.0 |
| 2020 | 14 | #6,135 | 8.1 |
| 2019 | 17 | #5,444 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 12 | #6,918 | 6.6 |
| 2017 | 8 | #9,277 | 4.3 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,525 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #6,140 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 6 | #11,419 | 3.1 |
| 2013 | 14 | #6,075 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 10 | #7,838 | 5.3 |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,787 | 5.3 |
| 2010 | 6 | #11,472 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 9 | #8,666 | 4.5 |
| 2007 | 5 | #13,392 | 2.4 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,284 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kano a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kano has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 19 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kano: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kano, and how old are they?
An estimated 233 Americans named Kano and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 12. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 233 people named Kano (58 women and girls, 175 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 131 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Kano rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 31,734 babies since 1880, Kano is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 1,031 babies (1.3%), 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 Kano
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 Kano and names like it
- Compare Kano and KaneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Kano.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kano alive today were born 2013-2025.
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