Kiowa — #12621 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Kiowa

The Social Security Administration has registered 228 babies named Kiowa between 1972 and 2024, spanning 53 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kiowa currently holds the #12621 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1995, when 18 babies received it in a single year. Kiowa is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 70 additional births since 1986.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kiowa performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 73 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Kiowa shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kiowa 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 228 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.