Kayonna
Kayonna was given to 19 girls in 2025, #6,220 among girls’ names; 571 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kayonna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kayonna?
#6,220 among girls’ names, 2025
Kayonna rose from #12,404 in 2015 to #6,220 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 4.5 to 11.8 per million.
27 babies in 2008, the peak
Kayonna peaked in 2008, when 27 girls were given it, #5,362 among girls’ names. The 19 births of 2025 are 70% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,220 | 11.8 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,637 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,294 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,275 | 7.9 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,452 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,389 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,935 | 8.3 |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,002 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,624 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,287 | 11.3 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #12,404 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,890 | 12.3 |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,918 | 12.5 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,404 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,719 | 10.8 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,709 | 9.0 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,301 | 14.7 |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,362 | 14.3 |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,608 | 13.0 |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,463 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,675 | 9.7 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,626 | 9.8 |
| 2003 | 16 | #7,050 | 8.8 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,173 | 12.8 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,760 | 13.9 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,634 | 8.8 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,328 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,885 | 7.9 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,273 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,920 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,398 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,846 | 9.0 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,344 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,043 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,817 | 3.7 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,742 | 2.8 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,191 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,965 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kayonna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kayonna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kayonna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kayonna, and how old are they?
An estimated 565 Americans named Kayonna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 11 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 402 people named Kayonna (402 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 489 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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.
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 Kayonna?
Kayonna is a less common spelling of Keyonna: SSA has recorded 571 Kayonna and 3,581 Keyonna since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,358 babies since 1880, Kayonna is the fourth most given (7.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 19 of their 89 babies (21%), the second 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 Kayonna
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 Kayonna and names like it
- Compare Kayonna and KeyonnaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKayonna peaked in 2008.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Kayonna.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kayonna alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.