Meaning not yet researched.
Kainoa: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 95 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,563 in 2005.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,563 in 2005; #1,716 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kainoa in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,716 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2005, at #1,563.
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Kainoa: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 95 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,563 in 2005 · most boys in one year: 105 (2016).
In 2025, 95 US boys were named Kainoa, making it the 1,716th most common boys’ name of the year, down 24 places from #1,692 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 99 boys named Kainoa in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,563, reached in 2005. The most boys given the name in a single year was 105, in 2016. For comparison, it was #1,697 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kainoa in 49 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1975 with 6 babies. In all, 2,696 US babies have been given the name, 1.5% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 877 babies named Kainoa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 908 US boys were named Kainoa; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 105. In 2025 that was about 1 in 17,980 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kainoa ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #59 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Rarer spellings such as Kanoa, Kano and Kainoah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kanoa (878), Kano (235), Kainoah (149), Kanoe (91), Kanoah (6), Kanoi (5), Kaonou (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Kainoa in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 14 | #59 | #99 |
| Nevada | 7 | #419 | — |
| Washington | 13 | #548 | #666 |
| Oregon | 6 | #561 | — |
| California | 21 | #1,027 | #1,065 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 95 | #1,716 |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,407 | 99 | #1,692 |
| 2023 | — | — | 101 | #1,687 |
| 2022 | — | — | 75 | #2,031 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,611 | 82 | #1,879 |
| 2020 | — | — | 80 | #1,858 |
| 2019 | — | — | 93 | #1,705 |
| 2018 | — | — | 86 | #1,784 |
| 2017 | — | — | 92 | #1,711 |
| 2016 | — | — | 105 | #1,568 |
| 2015 | — | — | 92 | #1,697 |
| 2014 | — | — | 88 | #1,721 |
| 2013 | — | — | 84 | #1,744 |
| 2012 | — | — | 84 | #1,778 |
| 2011 | — | — | 77 | #1,842 |
| 2010 | — | — | 76 | #1,892 |
| 2009 | — | — | 74 | #1,932 |
| 2008 | — | — | 84 | #1,782 |
| 2007 | — | — | 76 | #1,884 |
| 2006 | — | — | 80 | #1,749 |
| 2005 | — | — | 90 | #1,563 |
| 2004 | — | — | 79 | #1,640 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,984 | 81 | #1,573 |
| 2002 | — | — | 67 | #1,731 |
| 2001 | — | — | 55 | #1,970 |
| 2000 | — | — | 62 | #1,772 |
| 1999 | — | — | 50 | #1,948 |
| 1998 | — | — | 41 | #2,221 |
| 1997 | — | — | 27 | #2,864 |
| 1996 | — | — | 47 | #1,922 |
| 1995 | — | — | 34 | #2,322 |
| 1994 | — | — | 40 | #2,062 |
| 1993 | — | — | 29 | #2,545 |
| 1992 | — | — | 30 | #2,438 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,164 | 36 | #2,076 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,970 | 13 | #4,283 |
| 1989 | — | — | 15 | #3,724 |
| 1988 | — | — | 19 | #2,910 |
| 1987 | — | — | 14 | #3,430 |
| 1986 | — | — | 13 | #3,545 |
| 1985 | — | — | 6 | #6,159 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,656 | 15 | #3,032 |
| 1983 | — | — | 13 | #3,323 |
| 1981 | — | — | 12 | #3,509 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,601 | 11 | #3,734 |
| 1979 | — | — | 9 | #4,231 |
| 1978 | — | — | 9 | #4,004 |
| 1977 | — | — | 10 | #3,726 |
| 1975 | — | — | 6 | #5,121 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).