girls:
960 births since 1957
#4756 (17th percentile)
overall:
960 births since 1957
#6779 (12th percentile)
The name Kawana is the #6,779 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 960 recorded births since 1957. This represents the 12.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 12.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,756 (16.8% percentile) for all time with 960 births since 1957.
Kawana first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1957 (first recorded for girls in 1957). Birth data for Kawana is available in 36 out of the 45 years between 1957 and 2001. 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.
For girls, Kawana reached its peak popularity in 1978, achieving the 9.8% percentile (ranked #682) with 48 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 48 births per million (ranked 9.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2001.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kawana".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Kawana is pronounced as kuh-WAH-nuh, which has 3 syllables.
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