Kina
Kina was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,692 among girls’ names; 1,425 Americans have been recorded with it since 1952 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,350 Americans named Kina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 22 and 54.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kina mean?
Wiktionary, Hawaiian section
Kina is “a female given name originating from the Bible, a spoken form of biblical Dina (“Dinah”)”
/ˈki.na/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Hawaiian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kina?
#7,692 among girls’ names, 2025
Kina fell from #6,351 in 2015 to #7,692 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 11.2 to 8.7 per million.
46 babies in 1973, the peak
Kina peaked in 1973, when 46 girls were given it, #1,846 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 30% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,692 | 8.7 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,427 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,843 | 8.7 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,857 | 8.5 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,839 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,075 | 9.9 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,298 | 11.3 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,990 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,073 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,341 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (70)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #6,351 | 11.2 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,272 | 6.7 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,647 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,087 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,700 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,097 | 8.4 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,945 | 10.3 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,947 | 10.0 |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,615 | 13.0 |
| 2006 | 35 | #4,211 | 18.4 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,691 | 11.9 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,249 | 8.7 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,884 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,903 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,547 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,377 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,530 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,216 | 9.1 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,312 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,220 | 8.6 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,321 | 10.2 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,462 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,788 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,964 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,425 | 7.5 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,399 | 9.0 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,432 | 11.4 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,456 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,959 | 9.2 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,596 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 24 | #3,571 | 13.9 |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,279 | 15.4 |
| 1983 | 24 | #3,381 | 14.4 |
| 1982 | 32 | #2,866 | 18.9 |
| 1981 | 36 | #2,590 | 21.6 |
| 1980 | 41 | #2,371 | 24.7 |
| 1979 | 33 | #2,697 | 20.6 |
| 1978 | 39 | #2,332 | 25.5 |
| 1977 | 35 | #2,488 | 22.8 |
| 1976 | 44 | #2,013 | 30.0 |
| 1975 | 40 | #2,149 | 27.4 |
| 1974 | 46 | #1,892 | 31.3 |
| 1973 | 46 | #1,846 | 31.5 |
| 1972 | 39 | #2,035 | 25.6 |
| 1971 | 39 | #2,127 | 23.4 |
| 1970 | 31 | #2,417 | 17.7 |
| 1969 | 34 | #2,182 | 20.2 |
| 1968 | 26 | #2,456 | 15.8 |
| 1967 | 36 | #1,964 | 21.8 |
| 1966 | 33 | #2,036 | 19.5 |
| 1965 | 19 | #2,877 | 10.8 |
| 1964 | 22 | #2,710 | 11.6 |
| 1963 | 25 | #2,453 | 13.0 |
| 1962 | 24 | #2,495 | 12.2 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,888 | 5.9 |
| 1960 | 14 | #3,440 | 6.9 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,738 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,827 | 5.5 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,426 | 2.5 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,207 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 70 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kina, and how old are they?
1,350 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,425 Americans ever recorded as Kina. The median Kina alive today is 45 years old; half are between 22 and 54.
The 2020 Census counted 1,466 people named Kina (1,431 women and girls, 35 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,291 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 105 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 541 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 291 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 243 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 173 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 46,258 babies since 1880, Kina is the seventh most given (3.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 652 babies (2.1%), again the seventh 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 Kina
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 Kina and names like it
- Compare Kina and KianaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKina peaked in 1973.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kina since 1910.
- The top names of 1973The year the most babies were named Kina.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Kina alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.