Kawai — boys' name

What the Data Says About Kawai

The Social Security Administration has registered 100 babies named Kawai between 2008 and 2023, spanning 16 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kawai currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2020, when 16 babies received it in a single year. Kawai is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5 additional births since 2016.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kawai performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 53 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Kawai shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Kawai in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kawai 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 100 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.