Qiana
Qiana was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,691 among girls’ names; 2,622 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,520 Americans named Qiana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 39 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Qiana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Qiana?
#16,691 among girls’ names, 2025
Qiana rose from #18,499 in 2015 to #16,691 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 3.1 per million.
372 babies in 1978, the peak
Qiana peaked in 1978, when 372 girls were given it, #507 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,691 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,864 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,141 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,189 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,818 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,159 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,667 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,479 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,614 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,499 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 9 | #11,721 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,747 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 10 | #11,057 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,931 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 9 | #12,031 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,494 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,403 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 19 | #7,026 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,763 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 17 | #7,070 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,737 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,249 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,618 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,892 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,106 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 22 | #4,986 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,901 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 30 | #3,786 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 31 | #3,604 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 35 | #3,268 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 34 | #3,352 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 29 | #3,745 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 45 | #2,715 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,442 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 39 | #2,934 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 22 | #4,324 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 30 | #3,277 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,704 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 49 | #2,162 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 46 | #2,245 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 75 | #1,528 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 71 | #1,578 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 97 | #1,307 | 0.06 |
| 1981 | 158 | #941 | 0.09 |
| 1980 | 209 | #788 | 0.13 |
| 1979 | 332 | #556 | 0.21 |
| 1978 | 372 | #507 | 0.24 |
| 1977 | 250 | #651 | 0.16 |
| 1976 | 114 | #1,077 | 0.08 |
| 1975 | 87 | #1,287 | 0.06 |
| 1974 | 50 | #1,794 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 25 | #2,810 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,804 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,898 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,736 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Qiana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Qiana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Qiana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Qiana, and how old are they?
2,520 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 2,622 Americans ever recorded as Qiana. The median Qiana alive today is 46 years old; half are between 39 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 2,087 people named Qiana (2,079 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,504 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 | 1,400 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 783 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 239 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 101 |
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).
Where are babies named Qiana born?
The states with the most babies named Qiana are Illinois, California and New York, with 46% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 274 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| California | 234 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 192 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 121 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 112 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 86 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 81 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Louisiana | 75 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Indiana | 61 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 45 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Qiana is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Qiana is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1970 it was given 2.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Qiana with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Qiana?
Qiana is a less common spelling of Kiana: SSA has recorded 2,622 Qiana and 26,713 Kiana since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 29,500 babies since 1880, Qiana is the second most given (8.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 371 babies (1.3%), again the second most given.
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 Qiana
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 Qiana and names like it
- Compare Qiana and KianaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sQiana peaked in 1978.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Qiana since 1910.
- The top names of 1978The year the most babies were named Qiana.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Qiana alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with QMost given first.