Kiauna — girls' name
435 babies named Kiauna in U.S. Social Security records since 1979, with the highest year being 2002. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
The verdict
435 girls have been named Kiauna since 1979, peaking in the 1990s, last recorded in 2015.
- 435
- total births
- 1979–2015
- years on record
- 1990s
- peak decade
- 43%
- born in that decade
43% of everyone ever named Kiauna was born in this single decade.
30 babies were named Kiauna in 2002 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Kiauna
The Social Security Administration has registered 435 babies named Kiauna between 1979 and 2015, spanning 37 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kiauna currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 2002, when 30 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Kiauna performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 187 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Kiauna shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Maryland, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Kiauna in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Kiauna in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 435 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Kiauna at a glance
Last recorded 2015Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Kiauna popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2015–1979
- Peak year (2002)
- 30
- Annual births at peak — across 37 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2015.
435 total births across 37 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2002 with 30 births in a single year.
Kiauna by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 187 births that decade — 43% of Kiauna's all-time total
Kiauna decade highlights
- Peak decade 187 births
- Runner-up 155 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Kiauna's strongest decade
187 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 43% of all-time use.
Kiauna by state
Where Kiauna concentrates geographically — total births since 1979
Top 5 states
- Maryland 1.1% of nationwide
- Texas 1.1% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Maryland accounts for 1.1% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1979–2015 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.