Mehana — girls' name
64 babies named Mehana in U.S. Social Security records since 2002, with the highest year being 2005. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
The verdict
64 girls have been named Mehana since 2002, peaking in the 2010s, last recorded in 2025.
- 64
- total births
- 2002–2025
- years on record
- 2010s
- peak decade
- 44%
- born in that decade
44% of everyone ever named Mehana was born in this single decade.
9 babies were named Mehana in 2005 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Mehana
The Social Security Administration has registered 64 babies named Mehana between 2002 and 2025, spanning 24 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Mehana currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2025. The name reached its historical peak in 2005, when 9 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Mehana performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 28 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Mehana shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Hawaii, which accounts for 29 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Mehana in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Mehana 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 64 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.
Mehana at a glance
Last recorded 2025Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Mehana popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2025–2002
- Peak year (2005)
- 9
- Annual births at peak — across 24 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2025.
64 total births across 24 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2005 with 9 births in a single year.
Mehana by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 28 births that decade — 44% of Mehana's all-time total
Mehana decade highlights
- Peak decade 28 births
- Runner-up 20 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Mehana's strongest decade
28 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 44% of all-time use.
Mehana by state
Where Mehana concentrates geographically — total births since 2002
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Hawaii | | 29 | 45.3% |
29 of 64 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Hawaii 45.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Hawaii accounts for 45.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2002–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.