girls:
35 births since 2005
#5681 (1st percentile)
boys:
10 births since 2018
#4576 (0th percentile)
overall:
45 births since 2005
#7694 (1st percentile)
The name Kawaii is the #7,694 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 45 recorded births since 2005. This represents the 0.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,681 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 35 births since 2005. For boys, it ranks #4,576 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 2018.
Kawaii first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2005 (2005 for girls and 2018 for boys). Birth data for Kawaii is available in 8 out of the 18 years between 2005 and 2022 (6 years for girls and 2 years for boys). 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 Kawaii has been given predominantly to girls, with 77.8% of all recorded births being female. In 2022, 0.0% of babies named Kawaii were girls. Interestingly, until around 2020, the name was more popular for girls (87.5% girls from 2005 to 2019), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (100.0% boys from 2020 to 2022).
For girls, Kawaii reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #937) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2005, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2017.
For boys, Kawaii reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #924) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kawaii".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Kawhi. View all variations of Kawhi.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Kawaii", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 5 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Kawhi" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Kawhi..
Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Kawaii. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 41.4% confident that Kawaii is pronounced as kuh-WAI-ee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kah-WAI-ee, at 20.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Kawaii? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Kawaii. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Kawaii, please vote using the thumbs up button.
Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like K AH0 W AY1 IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker