Kawika
Kawika was given to 16 boys in 2025, #5,722 among boys’ names; 1,218 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,170 Americans named Kawika and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 16 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kawika by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kawika?
#5,722 among boys’ names, 2025
Kawika fell from #4,229 in 2015 to #5,722 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 12.5 to 9.4 per million.
35 babies in 1992, the peak
Kawika peaked in 1992, when 35 boys were given it, #2,195 among boys’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 46% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #5,722 | 9.4 |
| 2024 | 12 | #7,045 | 7.0 |
| 2023 | 18 | #5,354 | 10.5 |
| 2022 | 21 | #4,782 | 12.0 |
| 2021 | 13 | #6,503 | 7.4 |
| 2020 | 21 | #4,624 | 12.2 |
| 2019 | 14 | #6,253 | 7.8 |
| 2018 | 15 | #5,910 | 8.3 |
| 2017 | 23 | #4,395 | 12.4 |
| 2016 | 15 | #5,923 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #4,229 | 12.5 |
| 2014 | 24 | #4,192 | 12.5 |
| 2013 | 23 | #4,248 | 12.2 |
| 2012 | 24 | #4,200 | 12.7 |
| 2011 | 19 | #4,908 | 10.0 |
| 2010 | 31 | #3,498 | 16.2 |
| 2009 | 30 | #3,597 | 15.1 |
| 2008 | 22 | #4,470 | 10.8 |
| 2007 | 20 | #4,721 | 9.6 |
| 2006 | 27 | #3,730 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 20 | #4,389 | 10.0 |
| 2004 | 17 | #4,893 | 8.6 |
| 2003 | 31 | #3,072 | 15.7 |
| 2002 | 25 | #3,505 | 12.9 |
| 2001 | 28 | #3,183 | 14.4 |
| 2000 | 16 | #4,684 | 8.1 |
| 1999 | 21 | #3,642 | 10.9 |
| 1998 | 24 | #3,238 | 12.6 |
| 1997 | 31 | #2,579 | 16.4 |
| 1996 | 29 | #2,643 | 15.3 |
| 1995 | 30 | #2,526 | 15.8 |
| 1994 | 25 | #2,894 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 15 | #4,126 | 7.6 |
| 1992 | 35 | #2,195 | 17.5 |
| 1991 | 28 | #2,497 | 13.9 |
| 1990 | 32 | #2,234 | 15.6 |
| 1989 | 22 | #2,840 | 11.0 |
| 1988 | 30 | #2,109 | 15.7 |
| 1987 | 14 | #3,429 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 22 | #2,467 | 11.9 |
| 1985 | 26 | #2,151 | 14.1 |
| 1984 | 25 | #2,131 | 13.9 |
| 1983 | 30 | #1,844 | 16.7 |
| 1982 | 28 | #1,962 | 15.4 |
| 1981 | 33 | #1,745 | 18.4 |
| 1980 | 31 | #1,833 | 17.4 |
| 1979 | 33 | #1,737 | 19.2 |
| 1978 | 21 | #2,247 | 12.8 |
| 1977 | 22 | #2,167 | 13.4 |
| 1976 | 18 | #2,461 | 11.5 |
| 1975 | 11 | #3,331 | 7.0 |
| 1974 | 12 | #3,039 | 7.6 |
| 1973 | 11 | #3,125 | 7.1 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,367 | 3.1 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,431 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kawika a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kawika has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kawika: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kawika, and how old are they?
1,170 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,218 Americans ever recorded as Kawika. The median Kawika alive today is 29 years old; half are between 16 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 952 people named Kawika (5 women and girls, 947 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,090 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 154 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 403 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 380 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 237 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Kawika born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #2,642 | 0.6× |
Where Kawika is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kawika is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1968 it was given 132.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kawika with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kawika
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 Kawika and names like it
- Compare Kawika and LeandreBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKawika peaked in 1992.
- Hawaii’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kawika since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Kawika.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kawika alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.