Kayona
Kayona was last recorded in 2022, when 7 babies were given it; 310 Americans have been recorded with it between 1981 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kayona by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kayona?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,895, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
20 babies in 2006, the peak
Kayona peaked in 2006, when 20 girls were given it, #6,478 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 7 | #12,895 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,455 | 3.0 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,772 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,131 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,318 | 5.1 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,572 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,837 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,066 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,749 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,517 | 9.3 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 13 | #9,244 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,470 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,478 | 10.5 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,589 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,610 | 8.2 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,782 | 7.7 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,620 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,425 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,359 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,027 | 7.9 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,490 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,027 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,513 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,558 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,031 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,922 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,275 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,030 | 2.6 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,741 | 2.8 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,127 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,596 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,281 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,175 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kayona a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kayona has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kayona: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kayona, and how old are they?
An estimated 306 Americans named Kayona and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 17 and 29. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 274 people named Kayona (274 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 295 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Kayona?
Kayona is a less common spelling of Keyonna: SSA has recorded 310 Kayona and 3,581 Keyonna since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 8,169 babies since 1880, Kayona is the sixth most given (3.8% of them). In 2025 none of their 121 babies recorded by SSA was a Kayona (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Kayona
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 Kayona and names like it
- Compare Kayona and KeyonnaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKayona peaked in 2006.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Kayona.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kayona alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.