Kianna
Kianna was given to 142 girls in 2025, #1,507 among girls’ names; 8,747 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,630 Americans named Kianna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 16 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kianna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kianna?
#1,507 among girls’ names, 2025
Kianna rose from #1,857 in 2015 to #1,507 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 62.2 to 88.3 per million.
401 babies in 2000, the peak
Kianna peaked in 2000, when 401 girls were given it, #629 among girls’ names. The 142 births of 2025 are 35% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 142 | #1,507 | 0.09 |
| 2024 | 132 | #1,594 | 0.08 |
| 2023 | 118 | #1,743 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 136 | #1,563 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 137 | #1,540 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 124 | #1,662 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 98 | #1,981 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 113 | #1,807 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 107 | #1,896 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 106 | #1,905 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 111 | #1,857 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 105 | #1,913 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 145 | #1,520 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 180 | #1,310 | 0.10 |
| 2011 | 205 | #1,179 | 0.12 |
| 2010 | 246 | #1,020 | 0.14 |
| 2009 | 248 | #1,047 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 271 | #986 | 0.14 |
| 2007 | 319 | #876 | 0.17 |
| 2006 | 356 | #775 | 0.19 |
| 2005 | 300 | #844 | 0.16 |
| 2004 | 328 | #786 | 0.18 |
| 2003 | 303 | #817 | 0.17 |
| 2002 | 362 | #695 | 0.20 |
| 2001 | 379 | #665 | 0.21 |
| 2000 | 401 | #629 | 0.22 |
| 1999 | 399 | #607 | 0.22 |
| 1998 | 353 | #653 | 0.20 |
| 1997 | 366 | #616 | 0.21 |
| 1996 | 366 | #621 | 0.21 |
| 1995 | 376 | #599 | 0.21 |
| 1994 | 262 | #778 | 0.15 |
| 1993 | 179 | #1,031 | 0.10 |
| 1992 | 181 | #1,029 | 0.10 |
| 1991 | 112 | #1,428 | 0.06 |
| 1990 | 119 | #1,339 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 80 | #1,704 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 71 | #1,775 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 43 | #2,407 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 42 | #2,398 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 32 | #2,895 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 33 | #2,753 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 45 | #2,171 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 33 | #2,796 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 26 | #3,290 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 30 | #2,958 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,833 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 30 | #2,767 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 25 | #3,116 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,236 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,719 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,586 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,031 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,831 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kianna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kianna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kianna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kianna, and how old are they?
8,630 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 8,747 Americans ever recorded as Kianna. The median Kianna alive today is 24 years old; half are between 16 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 6,839 people named Kianna (6,831 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,901 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 | 149 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,960 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,960 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,560 |
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 Kianna born?
The states with the most babies named Kianna are California, Texas and Florida, with 68% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 24 | #1,101 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 17 | #1,437 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 11 | #1,290 | 1.2× |
| Arizona | 7 | #870 | 1.1× |
| New Jersey | 7 | #990 | 0.6× |
| New York | 6 | #1,955 | 1.1× |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,122 | 0.5× |
Where Kianna is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kianna is most over-represented in Florida: since 1971 it was given 1.2 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 Kianna 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 50,021 babies since 1880, Kianna is the second most given (17% of them). In 2025 it was given to 142 of their 805 babies (18%), again the second 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 Kianna
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 Kianna and names like it
- Compare Kianna and KianaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKianna peaked in 2000.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kianna since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Kianna.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kianna alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.