Kayana
Kayana was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,312 among girls’ names; 1,093 Americans have been recorded with it since 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,080 Americans named Kayana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 13 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kayana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kayana?
#7,312 among girls’ names, 2025
Kayana fell from #5,211 in 2015 to #7,312 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 14.6 to 9.3 per million.
51 babies in 2008, the peak
Kayana peaked in 2008, when 51 girls were given it, #3,293 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,312 | 9.3 |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,526 | 14.2 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,538 | 11.2 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,572 | 11.0 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,848 | 12.8 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,772 | 10.5 |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,224 | 14.9 |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,939 | 15.9 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,248 | 9.3 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,545 | 10.7 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 26 | #5,211 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,709 | 12.9 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,213 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 29 | #4,900 | 16.5 |
| 2011 | 29 | #4,862 | 16.5 |
| 2010 | 46 | #3,490 | 25.9 |
| 2009 | 33 | #4,531 | 18.0 |
| 2008 | 51 | #3,293 | 27.0 |
| 2007 | 41 | #3,883 | 21.3 |
| 2006 | 37 | #4,039 | 19.5 |
| 2005 | 43 | #3,477 | 23.3 |
| 2004 | 37 | #3,861 | 20.1 |
| 2003 | 30 | #4,352 | 16.4 |
| 2002 | 33 | #3,924 | 18.4 |
| 2001 | 44 | #3,165 | 24.4 |
| 2000 | 45 | #3,091 | 24.8 |
| 1999 | 48 | #2,825 | 27.1 |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,297 | 14.7 |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,173 | 14.9 |
| 1996 | 37 | #3,180 | 21.1 |
| 1995 | 31 | #3,528 | 17.6 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,301 | 13.4 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,772 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,852 | 8.7 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,745 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,076 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,221 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,751 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,342 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,939 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,593 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,616 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,798 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,726 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,138 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,935 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,033 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kayana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kayana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kayana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kayana, and how old are they?
1,080 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,093 Americans ever recorded as Kayana. The median Kayana alive today is 21 years old; half are between 13 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 905 people named Kayana (890 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 975 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 16 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 199 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 592 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 272 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,488 babies since 1880, Kayana is the second most given (20% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 121 babies (12%), the fourth 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 Kayana
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 Kayana and names like it
- Compare Kayana and KayannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKayana peaked in 2008.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kayana since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Kayana.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kayana alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.