Meaning not yet researched.
Kiona: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 12 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,827 in 1995.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,827 in 1995; #8,626 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kiona in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,626 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1995, at #1,827.
Hover, tap or use the arrow keys for any year. Years with fewer than five babies of a sex are not published by SSA and show as zero.
Kiona: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 12 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,827 in 1995 · most girls in one year: 78 (1995).
In 2025, 12 US girls were named Kiona, making it the 8,626th most common girls’ name of the year, up 4,203 places from #12,829 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 7 girls named Kiona in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,827, reached in 1995. That year also had the most girls given the name: 78. For comparison, it was #6,860 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kiona in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1973 with 16 babies. In all, 1,668 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 607 babies named Kiona.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 103 US girls were named Kiona; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 19. In 2025 that was about 1 in 133,939 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), Kianna (8,747 babies since 1880) and Keona (3,365 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 Kiona 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 | 12 | #8,626 | — | — |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,829 | — | — |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,807 | — | — |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,957 | — | — |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,292 | — | — |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,338 | — | — |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,948 | — | — |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,188 | — | — |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,243 | — | — |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,212 | — | — |
| 2015 | 18 | #6,860 | — | — |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,279 | — | — |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,929 | — | — |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,042 | — | — |
| 2011 | 18 | #6,992 | — | — |
| 2010 | 34 | #4,360 | — | — |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,951 | — | — |
| 2008 | 37 | #4,233 | — | — |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,171 | — | — |
| 2006 | 49 | #3,341 | — | — |
| 2005 | 53 | #3,035 | — | — |
| 2004 | 46 | #3,300 | — | — |
| 2003 | 49 | #3,073 | — | — |
| 2002 | 40 | #3,438 | — | — |
| 2001 | 57 | #2,654 | — | — |
| 2000 | 49 | #2,924 | — | — |
| 1999 | 63 | #2,356 | — | — |
| 1998 | 58 | #2,419 | — | — |
| 1997 | 68 | #2,086 | — | — |
| 1996 | 54 | #2,407 | — | — |
| 1995 | 78 | #1,827 | — | — |
| 1994 | 60 | #2,224 | — | — |
| 1993 | 44 | #2,746 | — | — |
| 1992 | 75 | #1,883 | — | — |
| 1991 | 53 | #2,403 | — | — |
| 1990 | 54 | #2,329 | — | — |
| 1989 | 47 | #2,462 | — | — |
| 1988 | 25 | #3,754 | — | — |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,381 | — | — |
| 1986 | 36 | #2,697 | — | — |
| 1985 | 28 | #3,199 | — | — |
| 1984 | 31 | #2,884 | — | — |
| 1983 | 19 | #4,031 | — | — |
| 1982 | 29 | #3,051 | — | — |
| 1981 | 26 | #3,291 | — | — |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,621 | — | — |
| 1979 | 14 | #4,949 | — | — |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,294 | — | — |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,683 | — | — |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,754 | — | — |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,722 | — | — |
| 1974 | 39 | #2,114 | — | — |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,860 | — | — |
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).