girls:
35 births since 1980
#5681 (1st percentile)
boys:
2.5k births since 1975
#2547 (44th percentile)
overall:
2.5k births since 1975
#5341 (31st percentile)
The name Kainoa is the #5,341 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,497 recorded births since 1975. This represents the 31.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 31.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,547 (44.4% percentile) for all time with 2,462 births since 1975. For girls, it ranks #5,681 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 35 births since 1980.
Kainoa first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1975 (1975 for boys and 1980 for girls). Birth data for Kainoa is available in 47 out of the 49 years between 1975 and 2023 (47 years for boys and 6 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Kainoa has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Kainoa reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 10.9% percentile (ranked #821) with 52 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 55 births per million (ranked 10.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Kainoa is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #815 (10.5% percentile) with 55 births per million.
For girls, Kainoa reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #933) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kainoa".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Kainoa. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 73.3% confident that Kainoa is pronounced as kai-NOH-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kah-ee-NOH-uh, at 26.7% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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