Kawena — #15874 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Kawena

The Social Security Administration has registered 176 babies named Kawena between 1988 and 2024, spanning 37 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kawena currently holds the #15874 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2005, when 14 babies received it in a single year. Kawena is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 15 additional births since 1992.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kawena performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 59 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Kawena shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Hawaii, which accounts for 62 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Kawena in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kawena 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 176 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.