Kawaii — unisex name

What the Data Says About Kawaii

The Social Security Administration has registered 43 babies named Kawaii between 2005 and 2025, spanning 21 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kawaii currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2025. The name reached its historical peak in 2025, when 8 babies received it in a single year. Kawaii is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 10 additional births since 2018.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kawaii performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 19 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Kawaii shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kawaii 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 43 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.