Meaning not yet researched.
Kena: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 13 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,466 in 1975.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,466 in 1975; #8,105 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kena in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,105 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1975, at #1,466.
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Kena: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 13 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,466 in 1975 · most girls in one year: 70 (1975).
In 2025, 13 US girls were named Kena, making it the 8,105th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,820 places from #6,285 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 19 girls named Kena in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,466, reached in 1975. That year also had the most girls given the name: 70. For comparison, it was #11,395 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kena in 75 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1947 with 6 babies. In all, 1,911 US babies have been given the name, 97% of them girls and 3.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 522 babies named Kena.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 128 US girls were named Kena; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 19. In 2025 that was about 1 in 123,636 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kiana (26,713 babies since 1880), Kenna (13,781 babies since 1880), Keyana (3,842 babies since 1880) and Keanna (3,638 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
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 Kena in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,105 | — | — |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,285 | — | — |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,797 | 9 | #8,597 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,347 | 5 | #13,377 |
| 2021 | — | — | 9 | #8,526 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,705 | 7 | #10,107 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,536 | — | — |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,899 | 10 | #7,905 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,085 | 7 | #10,261 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,485 | — | — |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,395 | 5 | #13,101 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,856 | 5 | #13,118 |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,923 | — | — |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,760 | 6 | #11,565 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,419 | — | — |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,837 | — | — |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,709 | — | — |
| 2008 | 23 | #6,040 | — | — |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,787 | — | — |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,631 | — | — |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,996 | — | — |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,369 | — | — |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,877 | — | — |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,058 | — | — |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,978 | — | — |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,404 | — | — |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,471 | — | — |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,939 | — | — |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,740 | — | — |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,813 | — | — |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,764 | — | — |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,439 | — | — |
| 1993 | 23 | #4,461 | — | — |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,302 | — | — |
| 1991 | 32 | #3,403 | — | — |
| 1990 | 28 | #3,755 | — | — |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,756 | — | — |
| 1988 | 29 | #3,348 | — | — |
| 1987 | 37 | #2,688 | — | — |
| 1986 | 30 | #3,088 | — | — |
| 1985 | 45 | #2,270 | — | — |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,800 | — | — |
| 1983 | 32 | #2,748 | — | — |
| 1982 | 40 | #2,428 | — | — |
| 1981 | 51 | #2,039 | — | — |
| 1980 | 55 | #1,950 | — | — |
| 1979 | 47 | #2,129 | — | — |
| 1978 | 58 | #1,775 | — | — |
| 1977 | 50 | #1,962 | — | — |
| 1976 | 63 | #1,591 | — | — |
| 1975 | 70 | #1,466 | — | — |
| 1974 | 43 | #1,978 | — | — |
| 1973 | 56 | #1,632 | — | — |
| 1972 | 51 | #1,736 | — | — |
| 1971 | 42 | #2,017 | — | — |
| 1970 | 42 | #1,995 | — | — |
| 1969 | 39 | #2,012 | — | — |
| 1968 | 46 | #1,736 | — | — |
| 1967 | 27 | #2,351 | — | — |
| 1966 | 28 | #2,278 | — | — |
| 1965 | 31 | #2,135 | — | — |
| 1964 | 33 | #2,088 | — | — |
| 1963 | 30 | #2,186 | — | — |
| 1962 | 18 | #2,977 | — | — |
| 1961 | 21 | #2,711 | — | — |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,807 | — | — |
| 1959 | 18 | #2,815 | — | — |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,146 | — | — |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,710 | — | — |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,308 | — | — |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,956 | — | — |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,801 | — | — |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,204 | — | — |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,626 | — | — |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,014 | — | — |
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).