Kariana
Kariana was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,488 among girls’ names; 559 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kariana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kariana?
#10,488 among girls’ names, 2025
Kariana fell from #6,848 in 2015 to #10,488 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 10.1 to 5.6 per million.
30 babies in 2010, the peak
Kariana peaked in 2010, when 30 girls were given it, #4,798 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 30% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,488 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,885 | 6.2 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,725 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,046 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,526 | 11.0 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,891 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,831 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,568 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,940 | 9.8 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,736 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #6,848 | 10.1 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,853 | 10.1 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,359 | 11.4 |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,322 | 14.8 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,405 | 8.0 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,798 | 16.9 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,199 | 12.0 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,216 | 9.5 |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,299 | 14.0 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,473 | 10.5 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,123 | 10.8 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,131 | 13.6 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,231 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,567 | 11.7 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,785 | 8.9 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,506 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,874 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,523 | 8.5 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,031 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,393 | 10.3 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,552 | 9.7 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,143 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,132 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,830 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,802 | 3.7 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,760 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kariana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kariana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kariana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kariana, and how old are they?
An estimated 553 Americans named Kariana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 12 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 533 people named Kariana (531 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 491 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
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 86,881 babies since 1880, Kariana is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 548 babies (1.6%), the fifth 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 Kariana
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 Kariana and names like it
- Compare Kariana and KarinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKariana peaked in 2010.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kariana since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Kariana.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kariana alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.