Meaning not yet researched.
Kitana: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 42 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,728 in 1996.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,728 in 1996; #3,615 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kitana in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,615 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1996, at #1,728.
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Kitana: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 42 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,728 in 1996 · most girls in one year: 87 (1996).
In 2025, 42 US girls were named Kitana, making it the 3,615th most common girls’ name of the year, down 658 places from #2,957 in 2024. That is 14 fewer than the 56 girls named Kitana in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,728, reached in 1996. That year also had the most girls given the name: 87. For comparison, it was #2,794 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kitana in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1994 with 15 babies. In all, 1,669 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 565 babies named Kitana.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 569 US girls were named Kitana; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 71. In 2025 that was about 1 in 38,268 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Ketina, Kitina and Kitanna are summarised on this page.
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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ketina (63), Kitina (60), Kitanna (35), Kytana (11), Ketana (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 Kitana 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 | 42 | #3,615 | — | — |
| 2024 | 56 | #2,957 | — | — |
| 2023 | 71 | #2,506 | — | — |
| 2022 | 54 | #3,057 | — | — |
| 2021 | 61 | #2,804 | — | — |
| 2020 | 58 | #2,841 | — | — |
| 2019 | 49 | #3,253 | — | — |
| 2018 | 58 | #2,891 | — | — |
| 2017 | 69 | #2,560 | — | — |
| 2016 | 51 | #3,205 | — | — |
| 2015 | 63 | #2,794 | — | — |
| 2014 | 63 | #2,760 | — | — |
| 2013 | 52 | #3,148 | — | — |
| 2012 | 55 | #3,065 | — | — |
| 2011 | 54 | #3,113 | — | — |
| 2010 | 51 | #3,234 | — | — |
| 2009 | 37 | #4,148 | — | — |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,051 | — | — |
| 2007 | 39 | #4,022 | — | — |
| 2006 | 41 | #3,763 | — | — |
| 2005 | 39 | #3,775 | — | — |
| 2004 | 50 | #3,104 | — | — |
| 2003 | 57 | #2,755 | — | — |
| 2002 | 57 | #2,690 | — | — |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,626 | — | — |
| 2000 | 62 | #2,472 | — | — |
| 1999 | 61 | #2,415 | — | — |
| 1998 | 73 | #2,038 | — | — |
| 1997 | 44 | #2,800 | — | — |
| 1996 | 87 | #1,728 | — | — |
| 1995 | 35 | #3,247 | — | — |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,170 | — | — |
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).