Meaning not yet researched.
Kiana: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 366 in 2025. Its best rank was #190 in 1996.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #190 in 1996; #743 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kiana in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#743 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1996, at #190.
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Kiana: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 366 girls in 2025. Peak: #190 in 1996 · most girls in one year: 1,585 (1996).
In 2025, 366 US girls were named Kiana, making it the 743rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 22 places from #721 in 2024. That is 25 fewer than the 391 girls named Kiana in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #190, reached in 1996. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,585. For comparison, it was #970 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kiana in 60 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1962 with 5 babies. In all, 26,713 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 10,368 babies named Kiana.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,384 US girls were named Kiana; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 391. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,391 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kiana ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #86 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Kenna (13,781 babies since 1880), Kianna (8,747 babies since 1880), Keyana (3,842 babies since 1880) and Keanna (3,638 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kina, Kionna and Kyna are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Kina (1,425), Kionna (1,186), Kyna (1,062), Keianna (1,044), Keiona (885), Kiyanna (795), Kiahna (455), Keyna (445), Kiauna (435), Kiannah (375), Keauna (342), Kianah (310), and more.
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 Kiana in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 26 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 9 | #86 | #99 |
| Nevada | 12 | #225 | — |
| Washington | 22 | #337 | #1,211 |
| California | 73 | #463 | #535 |
| Oregon | 6 | #592 | #444 |
| Utah | 6 | #661 | #533 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #662 | — |
| Alabama | 7 | #680 | — |
| New Jersey | 11 | #692 | #1,009 |
| Arizona | 9 | #719 | #909 |
| Colorado | 7 | #748 | — |
| Tennessee | 9 | #785 | — |
| Minnesota | 6 | #787 | — |
| Florida | 20 | #815 | #964 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #827 | #593 |
| Texas | 36 | #830 | #1,342 |
| Missouri | 6 | #867 | — |
| North Carolina | 11 | #871 | — |
| Virginia | 8 | #895 | #1,154 |
| New York | 14 | #1,059 | #1,104 |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #1,063 | #1,326 |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,074 | #1,373 |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,085 | — |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,292 | #1,428 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,325 | #1,396 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 366 | #743 | — | — |
| 2024 | 391 | #721 | — | — |
| 2023 | 388 | #726 | — | — |
| 2022 | 382 | #754 | — | — |
| 2021 | 362 | #785 | — | — |
| 2020 | 294 | #899 | — | — |
| 2019 | 280 | #945 | — | — |
| 2018 | 307 | #881 | — | — |
| 2017 | 286 | #926 | — | — |
| 2016 | 328 | #859 | — | — |
| 2015 | 279 | #970 | — | — |
| 2014 | 298 | #909 | — | — |
| 2013 | 343 | #794 | — | — |
| 2012 | 373 | #747 | — | — |
| 2011 | 455 | #629 | — | — |
| 2010 | 504 | #582 | — | — |
| 2009 | 558 | #541 | — | — |
| 2008 | 674 | #472 | — | — |
| 2007 | 742 | #435 | — | — |
| 2006 | 801 | #400 | — | — |
| 2005 | 817 | #382 | — | — |
| 2004 | 871 | #363 | — | — |
| 2003 | 949 | #331 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,042 | #299 | — | — |
| 2001 | 948 | #327 | — | — |
| 2000 | 1,166 | #276 | — | — |
| 1999 | 1,293 | #245 | — | — |
| 1998 | 1,371 | #226 | 5 | #10,533 |
| 1997 | 1,507 | #198 | — | — |
| 1996 | 1,585 | #190 | 6 | #8,515 |
| 1995 | 1,534 | #192 | — | — |
| 1994 | 1,117 | #249 | — | — |
| 1993 | 712 | #358 | — | — |
| 1992 | 633 | #402 | — | — |
| 1991 | 333 | #658 | — | — |
| 1990 | 272 | #758 | — | — |
| 1989 | 232 | #818 | 8 | #5,951 |
| 1988 | 161 | #1,017 | — | — |
| 1987 | 127 | #1,159 | — | — |
| 1986 | 144 | #1,052 | — | — |
| 1985 | 154 | #991 | — | — |
| 1984 | 139 | #1,022 | — | — |
| 1983 | 139 | #1,016 | — | — |
| 1982 | 135 | #1,066 | — | — |
| 1981 | 127 | #1,095 | — | — |
| 1980 | 134 | #1,060 | — | — |
| 1979 | 130 | #1,066 | — | — |
| 1978 | 138 | #994 | — | — |
| 1977 | 109 | #1,154 | — | — |
| 1976 | 74 | #1,428 | — | — |
| 1975 | 64 | #1,567 | — | — |
| 1974 | 39 | #2,113 | — | — |
| 1973 | 23 | #2,958 | — | — |
| 1972 | 15 | #3,987 | — | — |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,754 | — | — |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,617 | — | — |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,019 | — | — |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,267 | — | — |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,902 | — | — |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,045 | — | — |
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).