Kiana
Kiana was given to 366 girls in 2025, #743 among girls’ names; 26,713 Americans have been recorded with it since 1962 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 26,300 Americans named Kiana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 18 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kiana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kiana mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kiana is “a female given name from Hawaiian, of 1970s and later American usage.”
Borrowed from Hawaiian Kiana, itself from English Diana. Also used as a modern feminine form of Kian.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kiana?
#743 among girls’ names, 2025
Kiana rose from #970 in 2015 to #743 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.16 to 0.23 per 1,000.
1,591 babies in 1996, the peak
Kiana peaked in 1996, when 1,591 babies were given it (1,585 girls, #190 among girls’ names). The 366 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 366 | #743 | 0.23 |
| 2024 | 391 | #721 | 0.24 |
| 2023 | 388 | #726 | 0.24 |
| 2022 | 382 | #754 | 0.23 |
| 2021 | 362 | #785 | 0.22 |
| 2020 | 294 | #899 | 0.18 |
| 2019 | 280 | #945 | 0.17 |
| 2018 | 307 | #881 | 0.18 |
| 2017 | 286 | #926 | 0.17 |
| 2016 | 328 | #859 | 0.19 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 279 | #970 | 0.16 |
| 2014 | 298 | #909 | 0.17 |
| 2013 | 343 | #794 | 0.20 |
| 2012 | 373 | #747 | 0.21 |
| 2011 | 455 | #629 | 0.26 |
| 2010 | 504 | #582 | 0.28 |
| 2009 | 558 | #541 | 0.30 |
| 2008 | 674 | #472 | 0.36 |
| 2007 | 742 | #435 | 0.39 |
| 2006 | 801 | #400 | 0.42 |
| 2005 | 817 | #382 | 0.44 |
| 2004 | 871 | #363 | 0.47 |
| 2003 | 949 | #331 | 0.52 |
| 2002 | 1,042 | #299 | 0.58 |
| 2001 | 948 | #327 | 0.53 |
| 2000 | 1,166 | #276 | 0.64 |
| 1999 | 1,293 | #245 | 0.73 |
| 1998 | 1,371 | #226 | 0.78 |
| 1997 | 1,507 | #198 | 0.87 |
| 1996 | 1,585 | #190 | 0.90 |
| 1995 | 1,534 | #192 | 0.87 |
| 1994 | 1,117 | #249 | 0.63 |
| 1993 | 712 | #358 | 0.39 |
| 1992 | 633 | #402 | 0.34 |
| 1991 | 333 | #658 | 0.18 |
| 1990 | 272 | #757 | 0.14 |
| 1989 | 232 | #816 | 0.13 |
| 1988 | 161 | #1,016 | 0.09 |
| 1987 | 127 | #1,159 | 0.07 |
| 1986 | 144 | #1,052 | 0.08 |
| 1985 | 154 | #991 | 0.09 |
| 1984 | 139 | #1,022 | 0.08 |
| 1983 | 139 | #1,016 | 0.08 |
| 1982 | 135 | #1,066 | 0.08 |
| 1981 | 127 | #1,095 | 0.08 |
| 1980 | 134 | #1,060 | 0.08 |
| 1979 | 130 | #1,066 | 0.08 |
| 1978 | 138 | #994 | 0.09 |
| 1977 | 109 | #1,154 | 0.07 |
| 1976 | 74 | #1,428 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 64 | #1,567 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 39 | #2,113 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 23 | #2,958 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 15 | #3,987 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,752 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,616 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,017 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,266 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,901 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,044 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kiana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kiana has been given almost only to girls: 19 boys in 60 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kiana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kiana, and how old are they?
26,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 26,713 Americans ever recorded as Kiana. The median Kiana alive today is 26 years old; half are between 18 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 21,865 people named Kiana (21,798 women and girls, 67 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 24,311 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 19 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 714 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 7,390 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 13,900 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,280 |
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 Kiana born?
The states with the most babies named Kiana are California, Texas and Washington, with 41% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Washington is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 73 | #463 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 36 | #830 | 0.8× |
| Washington | 22 | #337 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 20 | #815 | 1.2× |
| New York | 14 | #1,059 | 1.1× |
| Nevada | 12 | #225 | 1.2× |
| New Jersey | 11 | #692 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 11 | #871 | 0.7× |
| Hawaii | 9 | #86 | 9.5× |
| Arizona | 9 | #719 | 1.1× |
Where Kiana is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kiana is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1962 it was given 9.5 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 girls’ 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 Kiana with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 48,520 babies since 1880, Kiana is the most given (55% of them). In 2025 it was given to 366 of their 699 babies (52%), again the most given.
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 Kiana
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 Kiana and names like it
- Compare Kiana and KiannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKiana peaked in 1996.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kiana since 1910.
- Hawaiian namesWiktionary’s origin for Kiana: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Kiana.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kiana alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.