girls:
6 births since 2002
#5710 (0th percentile)
boys:
142 births since 1981
#4444 (3rd percentile)
overall:
148 births since 1981
#7591 (2nd percentile)
The name Kaulana is the #7,591 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 148 recorded births since 1981. This represents the 1.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,444 (3.0% percentile) for all time with 142 births since 1981. For girls, it ranks #5,710 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 2002.
Kaulana first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1981 (1981 for boys and 2002 for girls). Birth data for Kaulana is available in 20 out of the 43 years between 1981 and 2023 (20 years for boys and 1 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 Kaulana has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Kaulana reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #754) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Kaulana ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 50.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Kaulana reached its peak popularity in 2002, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #893) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2002.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kaulana".
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