Kiona
Kiona was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,624 among girls’ names; 1,668 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,640 Americans named Kiona and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 21 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kiona by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kiona?
#8,624 among girls’ names, 2025
Kiona fell from #6,857 in 2015 to #8,624 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 10.1 to 7.5 per million.
78 babies in 1995, the peak
Kiona peaked in 1995, when 78 girls were given it, #1,822 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,624 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,824 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,802 | 10.6 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,952 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,287 | 11.6 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,333 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,943 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,183 | 4.1 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,237 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,209 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #6,857 | 10.1 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,274 | 6.7 |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,926 | 12.5 |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,040 | 15.9 |
| 2011 | 18 | #6,989 | 10.2 |
| 2010 | 34 | #4,359 | 19.1 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,948 | 10.3 |
| 2008 | 37 | #4,232 | 19.6 |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,170 | 19.2 |
| 2006 | 49 | #3,340 | 25.8 |
| 2005 | 53 | #3,031 | 28.7 |
| 2004 | 46 | #3,296 | 25.1 |
| 2003 | 49 | #3,070 | 26.8 |
| 2002 | 40 | #3,434 | 22.3 |
| 2001 | 57 | #2,650 | 31.7 |
| 2000 | 49 | #2,920 | 27.0 |
| 1999 | 63 | #2,353 | 35.5 |
| 1998 | 58 | #2,416 | 32.8 |
| 1997 | 68 | #2,083 | 39.1 |
| 1996 | 54 | #2,404 | 30.8 |
| 1995 | 78 | #1,822 | 44.4 |
| 1994 | 60 | #2,219 | 33.6 |
| 1993 | 44 | #2,741 | 24.3 |
| 1992 | 75 | #1,878 | 40.7 |
| 1991 | 53 | #2,397 | 28.3 |
| 1990 | 54 | #2,324 | 28.4 |
| 1989 | 47 | #2,457 | 25.5 |
| 1988 | 25 | #3,749 | 14.0 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,378 | 10.9 |
| 1986 | 36 | #2,696 | 21.0 |
| 1985 | 28 | #3,198 | 16.3 |
| 1984 | 31 | #2,883 | 18.4 |
| 1983 | 19 | #4,030 | 11.4 |
| 1982 | 29 | #3,050 | 17.1 |
| 1981 | 26 | #3,291 | 15.6 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,620 | 9.6 |
| 1979 | 14 | #4,948 | 8.7 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,292 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,681 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,752 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,720 | 8.9 |
| 1974 | 39 | #2,114 | 26.6 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,859 | 11.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kiona a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kiona has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kiona: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kiona, and how old are they?
1,640 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,668 Americans ever recorded as Kiona. The median Kiona alive today is 29 years old; half are between 21 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 1,376 people named Kiona (1,352 women and girls, 24 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,577 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 | 123 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 661 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 697 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 154 |
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, Kiona is the fifth most given (3.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 652 babies (1.8%), the eighth 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 Kiona
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 Kiona and names like it
- Compare Kiona and KianaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKiona peaked in 1995.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kiona since 1910.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Kiona.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kiona alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.