Kyna
Kyna was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 1,062 Americans have been recorded with it between 1951 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,000 Americans named Kyna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 30 and 52.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kyna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kyna?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,502, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
68 babies in 1977, the peak
Kyna peaked in 1977, when 68 girls were given it, #1,587 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #16,502 | 3.1 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,449 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,944 | 6.2 |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,003 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,464 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,083 | 9.6 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,708 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,166 | 9.5 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,587 | 9.1 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,314 | 4.0 |
Every recorded year (70)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 9 | #11,719 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,071 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,724 | 6.5 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,812 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,880 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,021 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,402 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,642 | 9.8 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,159 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,601 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,516 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,304 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,723 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,652 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,667 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,214 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,165 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,365 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,850 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,160 | 8.1 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,184 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,172 | 9.5 |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,949 | 9.8 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,750 | 10.1 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,382 | 10.9 |
| 1986 | 35 | #2,754 | 20.4 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,549 | 9.9 |
| 1984 | 30 | #2,959 | 17.8 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,622 | 13.2 |
| 1982 | 23 | #3,588 | 13.6 |
| 1981 | 31 | #2,888 | 18.6 |
| 1980 | 32 | #2,831 | 19.3 |
| 1979 | 28 | #3,036 | 17.4 |
| 1978 | 43 | #2,170 | 28.1 |
| 1977 | 68 | #1,587 | 44.4 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,739 | 12.3 |
| 1975 | 20 | #3,450 | 13.7 |
| 1974 | 24 | #2,956 | 16.4 |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,063 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 15 | #3,992 | 9.9 |
| 1971 | 20 | #3,315 | 12.0 |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,789 | 9.2 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,698 | 8.9 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,890 | 7.9 |
| 1967 | 20 | #2,826 | 12.1 |
| 1965 | 18 | #2,987 | 10.2 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,743 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,708 | 4.7 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,134 | 5.6 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,086 | 4.0 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,967 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,305 | 3.5 |
| 1958 | 15 | #3,166 | 7.5 |
| 1957 | 17 | #2,874 | 8.3 |
| 1956 | 17 | #2,877 | 8.5 |
| 1955 | 14 | #3,159 | 7.2 |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,954 | 7.7 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,106 | 2.7 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,705 | 3.8 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,854 | 5.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kyna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kyna 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 Kyna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kyna, and how old are they?
1,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 1,062 Americans ever recorded as Kyna. The median Kyna alive today is 44 years old; half are between 30 and 52.
The 2020 Census counted 921 people named Kyna (914 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 999 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 121 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 342 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 290 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 148 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 98 |
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 37,137 babies since 1880, Kyna is the seventh most given (2.9% of them). In 2025 none of their 468 babies recorded by SSA was a Kyna (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Kyna
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 Kyna and names like it
- Compare Kyna and KianaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKyna peaked in 1977.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kyna since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Kyna.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Kyna alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.