Girls' name · since 1972
Kiwanda
44 babies named Kiwanda in U.S. Social Security records since 1972, with the highest year being 1977. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 44
- total births
- 1972–1983
- years on record
- 1970s
- peak decade
- 84%
- born in that decade
Kiwanda is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 44 have been recorded since 1972.
Kiwanda has 44 recorded births among girls since 1972, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1970s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1972 to 1983.
- 44 total births
- 1972–1983 years on record
- 1970s peak decade
- 84% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Kiwanda's 44 recorded births place it above 49% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Kiwanda's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Kiwanda's SSA record in two at 1977 and the more recent half accounts for 55% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 45%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1972, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1977 peak of 10, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Kiwanda popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1972–1983
- Peak year (1977)
- 10
- Annual births at peak, across 12 years of records
Kiwanda by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1970s was Kiwanda's strongest decade.
37 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 84% of all-time use.
Kiwanda births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s
1970s
37 births
- 1980s 7
1980s
7 births
What this shows Peak: 1970s at 37 births (84% of all-time use).
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- Kiwanda's decade-level peak was the 1970s (37 total births); usage has since declined to 7 in the 1980s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1972–1983 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Kiwanda: Baby Name Since 1972 - 44 Births, Peak 1977." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/kiwanda. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Kiwanda draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.